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Sanford is instinctively very much a Southerner. When he speaks of cotton fields, he also mentions Northern ghettos; he refers to the summer of 1964 to show that the problem is national, not regional. He agrees that Southerners now bear the main burden, but he also believes that acceptance will come first in the South, "where the Negro is known as an individual, rather than in the North, where, as a comparative stranger, he is often feared...
...that Queen Elizabeth II not ignore them on her month-long Caribbean tour. And so she came. As the royal yacht Britannia docked at the jetty, nearly all 13,000 Nevisians were dancing in the streets. Then with endless royal waves, Elizabeth and Prince Philip drove off through the cotton and sugarcane fields to pay a gracious call at the birthplace of one of the Crown's less loyal subjects-Alexander Hamilton...
...page ninety-eight of the South Carolina state history text is a picture of a young Negro boy sitting on a pile of cotton and eating watermelon. The caption under the picture reads: "This is a Negro child...
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...
Died. William Lockhart Clayton, 86, co-founder in 1904 and chairman until 1951 of Anderson, Clayton & Co., Houston's cotton and food-products giant, who in 1945, as Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs, negotiated the first big postwar loan to Britain, then outlined what became the Marshall Plan; of a heart attack; in Houston...