Word: charlestoning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Pandamonium broke loose in my classroom last summer in Charleston, South Carolina, when I introduced this picture as the composition topic for that night. Students quickly added examples: postcards that always showed Negroes dancing and picking cotton and the local paper's policy of printing pictures of Negroes only when they committed a crime...
Then, as it often did during the six weeks of summer school, the discussion somehow turned to the summer of 1963 and the Charleston Movement. Many of my students went to jail that summer, and all of them remember it with pride and excitement. As Ralph Dawson said in his essay the next day, "I showed them that summer that I wasn't the boy in the picture...
...most spectacular U.S. engineering project of the war is Cam Ranh Bay, a 15-mile-long, five-mile-wide deep-water harbor 190 miles north of Saigon. Seven months ago it was a pristine, sun-blanched wasteland; today it is a frenetic modern port that rivals Charleston's in size. There, last week, building supplies, ammunition and barrels of fuel were stacked endlessly on the beaches near rows of new ware houses and barracks. On a flattened hilltop, antiaircraft Hawk missiles stood at the ready. Nearby, giant C-130 cargo planes and F-4 Phantom jet fighters returning from...
...cartons. Boston's Christmas Festival Committee, which is usually preoccupied with decorating the Common in late fall, raised $3,000 to buy gift packages from the city's fanciest grocer, S.S. Pierce. In Richmond, a neighborhood civic association passed the hat, bought 1,656 fruitcakes. A Charleston, W. Va., record-store owner asked teen-agers for their old records, was deluged with 3,300 in one week...
...with the little (5 ft. 1 in.) Princess and Tony led Lady Bird as the band played Everything's Coming Up Roses. Nearly everyone danced with Meg. Tony danced most of the numbers, including the discotheque type meant for the Luci-Lynda generation. Hubert Humphrey, naturally, did the Charleston...