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...George's narrow white streets murmured. Harrington Sound's blue-green waters were vexed. Paget's vegetable patches and Somerset's coves were not as peaceful as they looked. The reason was an ad in the Bermuda Royal Gazette. It said...
...Edgar Fitzgerald Gordon, Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery of Edinburgh University, President General of the Bermuda Industrial Union, President of the Progressive Bermuda League and Member of Parliament for St. George's, hereby declare that from henceforth I shall be known as Mazumbo...
Bland, well-dressed Mazumbo, leader of 2,000 politically conscious Negro workers, had taken his new name in protest against discrimination by a Bermuda newspaper; it prefixed "Mr." to the names of white members of Bermuda's Parliament (second oldest in the world), but called him simply Gordon. At his Hamilton home, Mazumbo lolled beside the Mimeograph machine in the living room, thinking up ways to needle Bermuda's whites who opposed his drive for better wages for Bermuda's Negroes...
...name Gordon, which I inherited, reminds me very painfully that some Scotsman in some other age compelled a grandmother of mine to submit to his desires. In Bermuda I am black and treated as Bermuda treats the black people. So I want to be called by a name that belongs to my race and requires no prefix...
...first messages were crackling along the Gulf Coast, the hams of STEN (South Texas Emergency Network) were given a red alert, went on the air to monitor the messages along to their destinations. In Washington, FCC hastily authorized STEN to use emergency frequency bands. Amateurs all over the U.S., Bermuda and Puerto Rico stood by to pick up and relay the messages...