Word: crowings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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PRESS: Making the NBC Peacock Eat Crow...
...Justice's skillfully rendered tales were seldom sweet. He liked to tell his law clerks about the time he confronted a "moderate" white-supremacist politician in the Jim Crow South with the fact that contrary to the segregationist promise of separate but equal facilities for blacks and whites, the whites in the state had a school for nursing while the blacks had none. The politician told Marshall that he could get the state to build a school for blacks, but that Marshall had to allow the politician to use his own methods. Marshall agreed, whereupon the politician immediately called...
Harvard will be eating crow instead...
Before that was Dambuilders, a nearly hard-core group whose feedback-stuffed guitarwork was topped by nothing less than an electric violin. Their thick sound got the crowd stomping after the opening act, Crow, good-naturedly meandered through a couple bad songs, looking as though they were hearing them for the first time...
Under the rule of Jim Crow, blacks were united by the struggle against racial oppression and tended to speak with one voice. Today the expansion of opportunities has allowed African Americans to split along economic lines; the & interests of the relatively well-off middle class are not the same as those of the poor. As a result, skin color alone is no longer a reliable guide to blacks' political attitudes, which range from the antiwar radicalism of Oakland Congressman Ron Dellums to the conservativism of Stanford University economist Thomas Sowell. Yet many blacks cling to an old tradition of rallying...