Word: conventioners
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Not any more. Put on the Willie Nelson record. Turn up Aaron Copland's Appalachian Spring. Woody Guthrie will do fine too, and even John Philip Sousa is permissible. The Zeitgeist has turned zesty. The U.S. is at peace, and between rising employment and fading inflation, the economy is...
Whether bringing Lenny Skutnik, the Air Florida crash hero, to his State of the Union address at the Capitol or making time for a photo session with Retton and the other Olympic medalists, Reagan manages to come off like a kindly Uncle Sam. Even when his rhetoric turns maudlin and...
Meanwhile Blacks condemned the Republican convention for not awarding any contracts to minority-owned businesses. A couple of days before the Republican Convention began, on a tour of the Convention Center with Republican fat cats the organizer of the Republican Convention came across a meeting including some city councilors. Spotting...
Whites and Blacks on the city council feuded for weeks before the convention, with Blacks harshly criticizing police and city policies set by the white majority. In the bitter name-calling, some whites on the council complained that the Black city councilors were not fit for the job. The Black...
After fighting with the city for a campsite, unsure of the direction the racial sparring would take, ACORN went ahead with plans to set up the Tent City, First, two massive gospel revival tents went up at the corner of the newly formed "Martin Luther King" and John J. Lewis...