Word: atlantae
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Overbite. In Atlanta, identified as the burglar who robbed the Fordham Pharmacy through the dental plate he dropped on the way out, Walter F. Cooper, 44, remarked disgustedly: "The thing never fit anyway; it was made for me while I was in prison in Missouri...
...year-old Walter Francis White, the Atlanta race riots of 1906 (described later in his autobiography), were more than a horrifying sight. But for the fact that he was blond and pink-cheeked, White might have been the victim of the mob himself. Yet from that dreadful day on, he elected to remain, fiercely and proudly, a member of the Negro race...
...year White was born on the outskirts of Atlanta's Darktown, 152 U.S. citizens, mostly Negroes, were murdered by mobs. In his lifetime, 3,017 men and women were lynched in the U.S., but when Walter White died of a heart attack last week, there had been no lynchings for four years. "If there's any single monument to Walter," said Roy Wilkins of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, "it's the record wiped clean of lynchings." The Boys Were Looking. Because of his appearance, White was peculiarly equipped to fight racial segregation...
Last week Dr. (of both law and economics) Gulek was near the end of his stay in the U.S. He had lectured at Columbia, Princeton, Harvard, M.I.T., spoken before influential groups in New York, Atlanta, Cincinnati, Birmingham, Nashville and Washington, D.C. Everywhere, he refused to be drawn into a discussion of domestic politics: "Foreign policy is not a party matter in Turkey . . . I have been conscious of my opportunity to serve my country, and I have tried to emphasize the broad national issues. I've tried to emphasize the constructive part of my country's policies. In this...
According to State Department sources, the Russians will not be allowed to visit Atlanta, as previously scheduled. Instead, the editors will be permitted to view the negro college, Tuskegee Institute, in Tuskegee, Alabama, and will then travel northward to the University of Michigan. The State Department gave no reason for the action...