Word: boye
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mayor was in his office. Why wasn't he out there in the street giving safe-conduct to women and children? Where were all the heaven-hollering preachers? Where were the priests of the "one true Church?" Where were the officers of the Y.M.C.A.? Where were the Boy Scout leaders? As a Southerner, I can understand the social issues. I am tolerant of a normal degree of cowardice. But the cowardice of "the best people" of Little Rock was an unnatural cowardice that ought to be explained...
Were civil defense to receive as much attention as the threatened Asian flu epidemic in this country, there would probably be fewer gray hairs and ulcers in the Civil Defense Administration. Yet Americans are preparing for a disease, whose fatal effects will be negligible, with more Boy-Scout-brand energy than they have ever devoted to the nuclear peril...
...geography teacher, after asking if Elsman were a new boy, learned the truth when students in the class called attention to the camera which Elsman had concealed behind a large text book. Elsman was marched summarily to the principal's office when he was labeled a "wise guy" for the Army to discipline...
...same girl reported that in the lunchroom of the school she had witnessed a Negro boy sitting alone. "A white girl and boy of very high quality asked the Negro if he would like to sit with them," she said. "He got up, grinned at them, and I believe that he was very happy that they had asked him," she continued...
...only other incident near the school came when a Negro delivery boy had the tires of his bicycle slashed by adolescent hoodlums. A group of photographers who recorded the vandalism collected twenty dollars to replace the tires...