Word: crow
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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George Walcott: House Committee; Freshman Crew Squad; Varsity Crow Squad; Blood Drive; Combined Charities Drive, House Captain; Dramatics; House Squash; PBH Junior Usher; Student Advisor...
...year after the Truman order, and the Marine Corps moved ahead. The Army, as Author Nichols says, was "the mule of the military team." Korea changed that; there simply were not enough white replacements, and field commanders were forced to fill in with Negroes. Once away from his Jim Crow unit, the Negro was a different soldier. How different became readily apparent in the results of Project Clear, an Army survey of the new racial policy. Items: ¶ On the test of standing up to mass attack, where Negro soldiers had had a reputation for taking to their heels...
Although Jim Crow still applies in most Southern communities, even there the breakthrough is felt. Pentagon files tell of Southern restaurants being opened to Negro soldiers in uniform, and of white Southern families inviting Negro servicemen home to dinner or for a weekend. A significant then-ν.-now example of the social change: on Aug. 13, 1906, Negro soldiers of the 25th Infantry Regiment rode into Brownsville, Texas, a hotbed of racial disorder, shooting into homes where people lay sleeping, killing a bartender, wounding a policeman. Brownsville did not forget quickly-but last year the First Presbyterian Church of Brownsville...
...While awaiting the U.S. Supreme Court's decision on the question of segregation in the public schools, Mississippi came to a decision of its own: the state senate voted down an amendment to the Mississippi constitution that would have allowed the legislature to keep Jim Crow by putting the public schools into private hands...
Young Marshall went to Jim Crow public schools himself, then to Pennsylvania's private, predominantly Negro, Lincoln University. On the side. he worked as grocery clerk, dining-car waiter, baker. His father wanted Thurgood to study law; no law school in Maryland would accept a Negro...