Word: blackly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...University of Wyoming, 14 blacks were dismissed from the football team after protesting an upcoming game with Brigham Young University. Reason: Brigham Young is affiliated with the Mormon Church, which bans Negroes from church offices. Now the Black Students Union at the University of Arizona has demanded that Brigham Young be expelled from the Western Athletic Conference. Similar discontent is spreading among other black athletes, who presented assorted demands and staged protests at Indiana University, the University of Washington and the University of Minnesota...
...members of the resurgent white Citizens' Council: "Integration is the corruption of the true American heritage by alien concept and ideology." More discreetly, most of the new private schools advertise "quality education," a slogan appealing to the genuine fear of many Southern whites that a massive influx of black students into formerly white public schools will slow down learning...
Nice Plant. The haste in which most segregation academies are conceived and born hardly helps. Typical is the new Sandy Run Academy in Swansea, S.C., a rural town whose population of 1,800 is 40% black. Until a year ago, Swansea had escaped all but token integration. But when the school board finally bowed to federal court orders to integrate Grades 10, 11 and 12, Swansea parents boycotted the public school. When the boycott petered out after two weeks, its instigators rushed ahead with plans to start a private high school...
Robert G. English, Swansea's 35-year-old public school superintendent, expects eventually to combat the threat of private schools in his district through widespread use of federal funds, particularly for remedial reading and special classes for slow learners. That way, he hopes, newly integrated black children will be able to catch up to the norm without holding up the education of better-prepared whites. "If we can show white parents that this massive integration can work without damaging their children's education," says English, "I think the public school will come out strong." That is a very...
...commune of dropouts, and Saroyan qualifies as the first articulate hippie. They are deliberate outcasts in search of saintly goodness, and their symbol, Kitty Duval (Susan Tyrrell), the stock prostitute with the heart of gold, has a luminous inner purity. When cops enter the bar and beat the black jazz pianist bloody, the scene has a truncheon-like impact that was totally lacking in 1939, when such events seemed isolated from any social context with which the audience was familiar. In those days, Saroyan was known as the "crazy man" of the theater. Now it seems more...