Word: atlantas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...entire South there are but 200. Southern Negroes are either too poor to pay a lawyer or else are likely to feel a white lawyer can do better for them in the courts. "The future is often cloudy and even ominous," complained chocolate-skinned Austin Thomas Walden of Atlanta to the convention. "The Negro, not yet wholly freed from the tentacles of the subservient and defeatist hereditary psychology created by 250 years of chattel slavery and surrounded by a dominant race which magnified and deified everything white, while minimizing, depreciating, if not anathematizing, everything black, which hypothesis...
Chancellor Kirkland has always put Vanderbilt first (current endowment: $28,000,000). But more than any other Southern educator he helped to prime the flow of Northern money that has enriched such schools at Tulane, Atlanta and Tuskegee. And the voice of Southern education is the Association of Colleges & Secondary Schools of Southern States which he founded in 1895 to step up admission requirements, arrange transfers, regulate athletic competition...
...image of an aged Negro with benign eyes and wrinkled brow, wearing an old-fashioned coat, a wing collar and flowing tie. It was a likeness of George Washington Carver, and its presentation climaxed his long, remarkable, well-publicized career. Made by Sculptor Steffen Wolfgang George Thomas of Atlanta, it was paid for by George Washington Carver's admirers, black and white, mostly in $1 subscriptions...
...week's end, accepting an honorary degree Doctor of Public Service) from Oglethorpe University (Atlanta), Producer Golden unburdened himself of some sentiments about his fellow producers which he had failed to give the convention...
...headed racquet still commanded such respect that expert doubt about Budge's ability to beat him was perfectly honest before the match began. And doubt still assailed the U. S. squad's brain trust after they had picked Bryan ("Bitsy") Grant, the lionhearted, 5 ft. 4 in. Atlanta tumblebug, as No. 2 U. S. singles player. But all doubts evaporated when, as so often happens in sport, what had promised to be a titanic struggle turned out to be nothing of the sort...