Word: crows
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Southerner, a recently published book in which he excoriated the stultifying influence of racism on the South, Georgia Congressman Charles Longstreet Weltner warned: "The South can lose again, just as we have lost for the past century. If Jim Crow is our goal, and equal justice our enemy, the South will lose...
Save for her piercing blue eyes, Lillian Smith hardly resembled a pioneering crusader for civil rights. Her manner was retiring, her voice soft and small. But her forceful message cut through the Georgia drawl: Jim Crow demeaned and diminished every Southerner, white or black. "Racial segregation has been a strong wall behind which weak egos have hidden for a long time," she wrote in 1951. She castigated Southern Governors who defied the U.S. Supreme Court's order to integrate the schools. As a result, she said, Southern whites "are losing their freedom to do right, to act as their...
Later, the Mayor spoke to the demonstrators, who tentatively put down their pointed demnads, "Jim Crow Must Go" and "Mayor Lindsay, We Want Schools," to listen. He talked about the need for better schools and about the city's growing resources to provide them. In the end, the crowd dispersed peacefully and everyone, including the Mayor, went home with a story to tell...
...cavalry charge, it was something of a flop. The objective was a sprawl of scrub-grown hills known as "the Crow's Foot," and the mounts were hulking, olive-drab helicopters. Not a single cavalryman carried a saber; instead they cradled automatic rifles in their arms. No plumed, defiant enemy fell to their swift assault, only 47 scrawny, half-naked guerrillas. Yet in its unromantic rendezvous with the Viet Cong last week, the U.S. 1st Cavalry (Airmobile) was far more effective than anything recorded in the dancing dactyls of Tennyson...
...real secret, says Andrew Wyeth, was high drama: "Look at the picture of Jim Hawkins in the crow's-nest, and you can see how he worked toward something like angle shots in motion pictures. Much as a camera does, you zoom in on things." And it is N.C. Wyeth's enduring worth that even today the hearts of oldsters and youngsters alike zoom aloft with...