Word: colorism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Leaders. What has made the difference? Some highly publicized interracial marriages have helped pave the way. The civil rights movement has recast the Negro in a heroic image. As one university counselor put it, with a measure of euphoria : "Discrimination is out of vogue. Black is no longer a color-it's a choice." It is easy to exaggerate the picture. Mixed dating is still practiced only by a small minority of the student population, and by no means on all campuses (though it is generally accepted at the biggest ones). It is virtually out in the South. Most...
Alexander, who graduated from Temple University and broke through Philadelphia's color line to become a respected radio newsman, has been going out with both whites and blacks for ten years. He notices an encouraging change in the attitudes of the community. "A couple of years back, I don't know if it took courage to walk about Philadelphia with a white girl, but you could sense the uneasiness. I don't feel that nervousness any more...
...dated a Negro, and the parents of another girl turned her over to juvenile police as "ungovernable." Even parents who consider themselves liberals are likely to quail. "My mother is a typical American clandestine bigot," says a New York girl whose family brought her up to be color blind-until she brought home her black suitor...
...building in Las Plazas del Mundo. In fact, "The Magic of a People" is a human comedy on the scale of Tinker Bell. Its 41 tableaux were composed by U.S. Architect-Designer Alexander Girard, who used 8,000 Latin American dolls and folk figurines from his huge collection (see color pages...
...American movie-watcher is occasionally duped by hand-held camera into feeling that what he is watching is reality. But those who see a slick Hollywood color job directed and lead-roled by John Wayne know different. About every fifth person walking out of The Green Berets was giving a detailed description to his friends about how it was filmed in Georgia, how it cost $3,000,000, and how it would've cost lost more if the army hadn't lent them most of the stuff...