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There in the shadow of the ag and the columns by which Davis was sworn in an first president the Confederacy, the crowd heard almost the whole roster of civil rights describe the plight of the Negro and demand the demise of Jim Crow...
...Successor. During a concert in Birmingham in 1956, five white men leaped onto the stage and knocked him down. Cole was unhurt. That is, until later, when the Negro press scalded him "for kneeling before the throne of Jim Crow" by playing before a segregated audience. In Harlem, some juke joints ceremoniously smashed his records. "I'm an entertainer," he answered, "not a politician. I'm crusading in my own way. I feel I can help ease the tension by gaining the respect of both races all over the country...
...great outdoors now celebrated almost entirely in never-ever television westerns. In a curious miracle of abandonment, Americans have become strangers in a landscape that they believe has built their national character. But not all. North of Alamogordo and east of Tularosa, south of Hondo and only six miles crow flight from an Apache reservation-in the dusty desolation of New Mexico-Artist Peter Kurd works in a perpetual state of wonderment...
...Garden to accept a Thanksgiving turkey from the National Turkey Federation and the Poultry and Egg National Board. Eying the 40-lb. Iowa gobbler, he quipped: "I wasn't quite sure what I would eat for Thanksgiving, but I'm glad it's turkey and not crow...
...disease; in Washington. A nonswearing, one-martini Unitarian, Burton was the middle-roading conciliator between the hotly divided Frankfurter and Black camps; he believed in interpreting, not making, the law, though he became an ardent civil rights advocate, winning headlines in 1950 when he wrote the opinion outlawing Jim Crow dining cars (the Negro table behind the curtain) on Southern railroads, one of the modern court's first major anti-segregation decisions...