Word: crows
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...1950s were "painful" and "complicated" for Blacks in America, as were the 1940s, the 1930s and every preceding decade. But Jim Crow and segregation weren't invented in the 1950s--indeed, the 1950s sounded the death knell for government-sanctioned discrimination in the United States...
...cancellation of the ConAgra agreement. In response, the Holly Farms board of directors said that unless ConAgra comes up with a better offer before a special stockholders meeting in late February, it will recommend the Tyson offer to its shareholders. Then the poultry prince will really have something to crow about...
...first incident was clearly offensive, we are likely to question the dean's concern about the latter event. By linking the two, is she not trivializing racism? After all, no offense was intended by referring to the 1950s as a "care-free" era. Must we always mention Jim Crow when we refer to a pre-1970 decade...
...traded away Doaker's grandmother and father, then a nine-year-old. On this piano, Doaker's grieving grandfather, the plantation carpenter, carved portrait sculptures in African style of the wife and son he had lost. To Doaker's hothead older brother, born under the second slavery of Jim Crow, the carvings on the piano made it the rightful property of his kin, and he lost his life in a successful conspiracy to steal...
...Republicans are too adept at playing racial politics. The Democrats ceded their hold on the George Wallace crowd when they declared war on Jim Crow back in the 1960s, and the Republicans have accepted them into the fold without protest. House Republican leader Robert Michel (III.) made that clear when he noted that Reagan Democrats would defect to Bush when they "look at the Democratic convention out there and see the one-third Blacks in that composition of delegates...