Word: alot
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...moved first to the tenements of Harlem and later to Fort Worth. There Mrs. Marguerite Oswald worked in a candy factory to support her sons. "I saw my mother as a worker," Oswald once said, "always with less than we could use." A below-average student, he nonetheless read alot and at 15 discovered Karl Marx's Das Kapital. In his own words, it was like "a very religious man opening the Bible for the first time." He was, he explained, "looking for a key to my environment...
...situation is building up alot of hostile feelings among the Negroes and the poor whites who cannot afford the tuition, but no one is around to organize action. "So everyone just sits around, frustrated," Cabarrus says. About 1400 of the Negro kids and the poor whites have been working on farms or playing football in the streets for the past three years in Prince Edward County...