Word: backgrounds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...want to send kids to school with, and some you don't. Like I say, I don't know how it is here, but down home a nigger's just different. I don't know why, but they are. First place, they're stupider. Maybe it's the background, never havin' books or talk around home but they get lower marks on IQ tests. Nobody in the North can deny that, either. Second place, they don't work in school. That makes it hard to get the white kids working. Niggers just don't care about school. When they integrated...
...broken through the barrier of obscurity. As President Zens says with determination, "We're in business and people know it now."Marlboro's library, with a small but adequate collection of books, is used both for studying and relaxation. The brown paper covering the shelves in the background is used to protect the books during the summer, when the Marlboro School of Music takes over the campus. Two students chat in Marlboro's snack-bar and canteen, located in the main schoolbuilding, Dalrymple Hall, named after the carpenter who built it. All the classes, the largest of which number fifteen...
...begin to express my disagreement with Governor Orval Faubus' actions of late, but inciting prejudices because of a man's background can certainly be no more commendable than inciting prejudices because of a man's skin pigmentation...
...Sept. 16 issue of TIME, you published an article entitled "Little Spacegirls." I don't feel that the U.S., with its long educational background and intelligent young women of today, need take a back seat to Russia in space flight and exploration. I am writing to offer my services...
...Arrow on the other networks. An hour later, CBS's news crew turned in the week's best TV roundup: a half-hour wrapping together of film clips of mob violence and barely dry shots of the arriving paratroopers and President Eisenhower's speech with a background summary by Walter Cronkite in Manhattan, on-the-spot interviewing by Howard K. Smith in Little Rock, and analysis by Eric Sevareid from Washington...