Word: carolina
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...left, the skinny kid in the trench coat, standing beside three other young black men. That winter day in 1960, those four college students broke the segregation barrier by taking seats at F.W. Woolworth's downtown lunch counter. The sit-in shook the sleepy North Carolina city and ignited a nationwide movement to topple Jim Crow's walls. But Richmond says all he felt that day was "scared, scared, scared...
Greensboro (pop. 195,495), a prosperous town set on North Carolina's lush Piedmont Plateau, has been a national bellwether of race relations. It was not only the birthplace of the sit-in movement but also the site of one of the most horrifying episodes of racial violence since the 1960s. In 1979 five Communist Workers Party members taking part in a "Death to the Klan" rally were gunned down in the street by American Nazis and members of the Ku Klux Klan...
...North Carolina primary voters made history last week by selecting Harvey Gantt as the first black ever nominated for the U.S. Senate by the Democratic Party in any state. But to Carter Wrenn, a top strategist for Republican Jesse Helms, Gantt's nomination merely confirmed that the Tarheel State remains under siege. Charged Wrenn: "What you have opposing Helms is another coalition of homosexuals and artists and pacifists and every other left-wing group...
Once again North Carolina seemed in the grip of political schizophrenia. The calm and articulate Gantt, a former two-term mayor of Charlotte, may appeal to the progressive voters who gave the state a reputation for moderation by electing such Democrats as Terry Sanford, first as a forward-looking Governor and in 1986 as North Carolina's other Senator. The tart-tongued Helms, on the other hand, has won three terms by pushing hot-button hard-right issues -- pornography, school prayer, busing -- among whites in more rural parts of the state. To have a shot at Helms, local experts...
They vote to double their levy on gasoline but only to pay for highways. -- North Carolina and Massachusetts Democrats select their candidates. -- Congressional cold warriors cling to their gospel, but the politics are dubious...