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...courthouse. Some 200 persons marched around the University of Houston campus to enlist the support of Negro students there, and then headed downtown. One of the marchers shouted up at Lee Otis Johnson, who was heading the four-block long line, "Hey, Lee Otis, from now on, we're callin' you Moses. You're leading the brothers out of the ghetto." Johnson's reign, however, was short. Moments later, as the marchers passed by the riot cars which had been parked during the last week on 24-hour alert at Jeppesen stadium, about eight Negro police officers rushed...
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...Detroit, if a compositor works so much as a minute into his lunch period, he gets time and a half for the whole period. A printshop employee, if not notified of a change in his shift before leaving the plant, gets $2 extra "callin" pay-plus overtime until the start of his regular shift...
...stumble through swampland, nearly drown fording a river, nearly wrench their arms from their sockets clawing out of a deep clay pit. When they pause, it is not to rest but to spit forth their hatred. Telling Poitier why he is a "nigger," Curtis says: "It's like callin' a spade a spade. I'm a hunky. I don't try to argue out of it." Replies Actor Poitier: "You ever hear tell of a bohunk in a woodpile, Joker? You ever hear tell of 'catch a bohunk...
Bill Robinson, 67-year-old past master of tap, now dancing on Broadway, told an interviewer that his real name was Luther, and recalled how he had changed it: "I said to myself, 'I'll never go about the world with nobody callin' me Luther,' so I caught my brother whose name was Bill and I gave him a good whippin'. I told him that from now on his name was Percy and mine was Bill. He's in North Carolina how, and he's still Percy Robinson...