Word: bluejeans
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Even more depressing than the plodding lives of the city's pavement-dwellers are the lives and frustrations of those who, like my aunt and the bluejean-clad students I travelled with, have grown up with privilege, the opportunity for education, and the responsibility to improve conditions for the people who do not share their privilege. They live in the brightly painted, concrete homes of the city. Few, if any, neighborhoods are segregated from the shortage of food and living space that pervades the city, but some "nicer" areas stand out. In one of these residential neighborhoods, I had dinner...
...marches puddled on the courthouse lawn. They sang, joining arms and swaying in union. Some white boys nudged one another and giggled. A few faces stand out in my mind: an enormous Negro youth in a bluejean jacket, a tiny Negro minister, a pudgy white girl in a baggy dress...
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