Word: althea
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There are other opinions, however. Black women are the lowest-paid members of the work force; a black man with an eighth-grade education has a higher median income than a black woman with some college education. Los Angeles Black Activist Althea Scott says, "White women liberationists talk about the difficulties of getting into graduate or professional school. We talk about getting jobs in the five and ten. We're on the nitty-gritty level. Just let black women struggle at their own rate. They'll see they are women." Spanish-speaking women are also somewhat alienated from...
Died. Dr. R. Walter Johnson, 72, the Negro physician whose hobby was molding promising black youngsters into tennis greats; in Lynchburg, Va. Credited with cracking the color line on public courts and in tournaments, Johnson took a teen-ager from Harlem named Althea Gibson under his wing in 1947 and prepared her for two Wimbledon and two Forest Hills titles. Six years later he befriended a frail ten-year-old named Arthur Ashe Jr. "What made me maddest," Johnson once commented, "was this idea that colored athletes . . . couldn't learn stamina or finesse...