Word: cruder
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...could look in another direction and see symbols of black respectability: a neatly kept house containing a family with three well-educated schoolteachers. He could also see a white school, but instead of attending it he had to walk five miles to reach his black school. He experienced cruder prejudice early. At the age of six, he rushed happily into a store, whistled innocently for service?and saw the white shopkeeper point a gun at him. What later bothered him most was that no black adults in the store said anything...