Word: children
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Department received a few hundred nasty letters and calls, just as here and there around the country the kooks and bigots relieved themselves of excess bile at Rusk's expense. An American Nazi Party captain in El Monte, Calif., declared: "I'd probably kill any of my children before I'd let them do such a thing." His reaction was echoed by a respectable businessman lunching at the Westmoreland Country Club in Glenview, Ill.: "If I were Rusk, I'd be inclined to shoot the guy." A grande dame at the Orlando Country Club in Florida...
...quieter than in 1963, when Charlayne Hunter, who had helped integrate the University of Georgia, married the son of a prominent white Georgia family. Many parents in all parts of the country, projecting themselves into a situation of a Negro Montague or a white Capulet, could fear for their children's happiness. But they also had to realize that young Americans today are determined to set their own life styles, regardless of parental dictates...
Sweaty Hands & a Prize. Comfortably settled in an integrated Northeast Washington neighborhood, the Smiths enrolled their only child in the progressive Georgetown Day School, established in 1945 with the aim of forestalling any sense of racial separateness in children's minds. Guy was in a minority, but not by all that much: 30 of Georgetown Day's 100 pupils were Negroes...
...brilliantly, earning A's in his history major, B's and C's in most of his other subjects. One summer, when he was not cantering through the park with Peggy and Navajo, he worked as a counselor in a Southwest Washington playground, supervising Negro children. "And that's the kind of thing," says Principal Orr, "that Guy wants to do when he gets out of the service-something that involves him with people...
Discussing his future with her son, she found him thinking, but not worrying, about its complications. He wants to have children and once remarked: "Don't worry, I can educate them in Switzerland if I have to." Says Clarence Smith: "If anybody can make this work, Guy and Peggy...