Word: charlestoning
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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...
...really undesrstand until you see forty-five of the brightest Negro students in Charleston below grade level according to national standards in reading and mathematics and unable to write a coherent paragraph. (Most had never written an essay in English, which in Charleston consists of twelve years of grammar...
...intensive individual help in reading, writing and mathematics for these forty-five above average students. We wanted to interest them in continuing their education and give them the competence that would allow them to continue. The five of us, three graduate students and two experienced teachers, had come to Charleston as a result of cooperation between local community leaders and the Southern Teaching Program. We tried to use a combination of small classes and daily individual conferences in every subject to keep close watch on the progress of each student...
...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...