Word: bellum
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...Cancer College." The Tougaloo campus, just outside Jackson, is an old Faulknerian plantation dotted with moss-hung oaks. A rundown ante-bellum mansion serves as the administration building. It is the only integrated school in Mississippi; Jackson racists call it "Cancer College." The dean of students, Methodist Minister R. Edwin King, keeps as a souvenir a charred K.K.K. cross-"the handy field model," he jokes-that was set afire this spring on Tougaloo's campus...
...White America is a poignant chronicle of the Negro's centuries-old legacy of pain, oppression, and denial, from the days of slavery to the present hour. It is an evening of dramatic readings thoughtfully culled from the statements of Presidents, the reminiscences of ex-slaves and ante-bellum Southern matrons, the rantings of bigots. Sensitive actors make the word intolerance become flesh, tortured, torturing and unanswerable...
DIRECTIONS '64 (ABC, 1-1:30 p.m.). Readings by Negro actors of excerpts from the works of ante-bellum Negro writers...
...they would want it or not, are beginning to accept. They will no doubt continue to delay the toppling of their old world until the very last, but when finally they must choose between the next step in their program for Southern progress and the last of the ante-bellum mores they will likely pick the former...
...slavery, all of which he probes deeply. His students do not just vaguely read that Lincoln and Douglas once debated slavery, or skim snatches of rhetoric. They get mimeographed copies (30 single-spaced pages) of the complete Galesburg debate of Oct. 7, 1858, a fascinating excursion into ante-bellum schizophrenia that reads like a Broadway play. They read not only Lincoln's famed Cooper Union address, but also the rarely mentioned reply to it-a brilliant defense of Southern traditions by the Rev. James Henley Thornwell...