Word: crowing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...white South stamped out one spark, the brushfire caught in dozens of faraway communities. In five weeks, Negro "sit-in" demonstrations at segregated lunch counters had raced from North Carolina to South Carolina to Virginia to Florida to Tennessee and into Deep South Alabama. A unique protest against Jim Crow kindled by four college freshmen in Greensboro, N.C. (TIME, Feb. 22], the Gandhi-like Negro civil disobedience campaign, without any apparent central organized direction, continued to spread...
...white waitresses ignored their studiously polite requests for service. The students continued to sit until closing time. Next morning they reappeared, reinforced by 25 fellow students. By last week their unique sitdown had spread through 14 cities in five Southern states in a far-ranging attack on the Jim Crow custom that Negroes may be served while standing at downtown lunch counters but may not be served if they sit down...
...months. Moderate Meany has steadily but quietly pressured unions to drop their color bars; in his 20 years of leadership the number of all white A.F.L. unions has dropped from 26 to only one - the 97,000-member Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen. Even so, there are Jim Crow locals aplenty, and Randolph publicly criticized Meany at the union's convention last fall for not purging them. Meany blew up, roared at Randolph, "Who the hell appointed you as guardian of all Negroes in America?" Since then, Randolph has been working round the clock to show...
...where Dali spends six months of the year, shines through every part of the vast canvas, and the Santa Maria floats on a mother-of-pearl sea precisely like a Cadaques fishing boat at dawn. Her sails, however, are inventions. The transparent topsail shows the silhouette of a combined crow's-nest and Holy Grail...
...both the North and the South last week, the harsh caw of Jim Crow was raised in triumph in two cases of racial discrimination having to do with public parks...