Word: afros
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Richard Nixon, who gained the presidency with only 43.4% of the popular vote? George Wallace, who achieved more ballots than any other third-party candidate in the nation's history? If, as one magazine recently claimed, Singer James Brown, "Soul Brother No. 1," is the most powerful Afro-American, who is the most powerful Italian-American? Frank Sinatra...
Franklin conceded that there is a need for concentrated courses on Afro-American subjects, especially on the college levels. But these topics should not be taught to the exclusion of a revisionist American history, he said...
...Committee on Afro-American Studies has established a fund for juniors planning to write theses on Afro-American subjects...
...members of the Mod Squad are not so sanguine. "Three kids working for the cops like that, it's not what you'd call realistic," says Williams, 28, who was among the first actors to adopt Afro-style hair and dress. "It's just entertainment. Every time you set out to say something significant on TV, it gets chopped down. I don't say 'Hey, man, this is what's happening, baby; you gotta write it this way.' I'm just a lowly actor doing his job." Cole, whose first leading role...
...editors enjoyed more tangible advantages also. The Cox Commission, meeting after the occupation as a Columbia-appointed group, could persuade neither the leaders of SDS nor Afro to testify before them. The Spectator editors knew Rudd and Cicero Wilson personally and mingled easily into demonstrations. Only they were allowed inside the meetings of the ad hoc Faculty Group that vainly tried to mediate the crisis...