Word: denims
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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WHEN THE doors opened and the men got out, the spell was broken--for an instant. After the silence there was a brief squeal of joy from wives and children seeing the man they were looking for, but then there was abrupt silence again. The men wore blue denim jackets with "USS Pueblo" written in faded letters on the back. They had blue denim caps and all were pale. They walked quietly, most without smiling, down the ramp and into the crowd. A few hugged wives and children, but it wasn't a wild kissing-the-soil scene from...
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There were blacks and whites, flower-decked hippies in shawls and black nationalists in African robes, sharecroppers in denim and urban youths in cowboy boots. The neat rows separating the plywood tents were given names like "Soul Street" and "Atlanta Street" while the shelters themselves bore inscriptions like "Soul House No. 1½," "We Shall Overcome," and "Girls Wanted, Experience Unnecessary." Children lined up for free inoculations against measles, whooping cough, diphtheria and lockjaw, and two vans for dentistry served kids and adults, many of whom had never before seen a dentist. Evenings, the entertainment was the finest in town...
...search of a "good job." Today he lives just over the poverty line?$150 a month as a janitor keeps him a scant penny above the $1,710 poverty line for a single man in an urban area. Short (5 ft. 6 in.) and lean in his baggy denim trousers, woolen work jacket and purple longshoreman's cap, he used to support a wife and five children. He and his wife were divorced a few years ago. "All that hard work, and I wind up a poor man," he says. "The poor family, it wants the same things...
Underneath the beauty of the Invaders from Memphis and the rhetoric of fallen leaders there is not much stuff. People are walking around in brand new denim coveralls with cars from California that have SCLC bumper stickers next to Bobby Kennedy bumper stickers. Even if this thing ends in violence (it is already confused and frustrated, and that combination often leads to violence), this is not a revolution, nor what it meant to be. Everything the Poor People want has already been proposed by the Johnson Administration, the Urban Coalition, or the Kerner Commission. The only thing really...