Word: blacking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...shouted the crowd, many dressed in the movement's green, black and gold colors...
...government gave permission for the rally to take place, part of an attempt by President F.W. de Klerk to promote Black-white negotiations new constitution. But a magistrate had warned organizers that speakers should avoid promoting ANC aims...
Some performers live in memory as icons of their eras -- Marilyn Monroe with her air-blown skirt at thigh level, or Louise Brooks of the silents, purring beneath a helmet of slinky black hair. Particularly to the French, there is more than one archetypical image of Josephine Baker, who danced her way out of the hovels of East St. Louis to become the world's first black international star. From the Roaring Twenties came a Baker persona at once erotic and comic: prancing topless on a Paris music-hall stage, with eyes crossed as if to spoof her naked sensuality...
...same is true of any group. No one at Harvard thinks that all Black students fit a particular stereotype. Yet we would never tolerate a residential system that strongly segregated Blacks. Is it fair to classify Black students according to a single trait in this case...
...suspect, described as a 20- to 30-year-old Black male, was spotted the previous day in the black room of the used and rare bookstore by a clerk. The book clerk, Anne H. Britton, said the man claimed he did not know he was in a restricted area...