Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...second-year men, $13,000 for third-year men), payments for preseason exhibition games ($500 per game) and such minor benefits as air conditioning in the training-camp barracks. But on the 22nd point-pensions-negotiations broke down. Determined to show its muscle, the N.F.L. Players Association, headed by Detroit Lions Guard John Gordy, ordered its 600 members not to report to their training camps. The owners retaliated by closing down the camps, and professional sport had its first strike since 1890 - when baseball players walked out and formed their own league, the Players' League, which folded after...
...land. On weekends, mixed couples by the dozens stroll in Manhattan's Central Park, through Chicago's Old Town and Hyde Park areas, in San Francisco's North Beach. The strongest enclave for interracial dating is the school or college campus. A poll taken recently at Detroit's Wayne State University showed that 279 out of 365 students had dated, or intended to date, members of another race. Says Jim Nabors, vice chairman of the Afro-American Student Union at Berkeley: "It's no longer avantgarde. It's just a little avant-garde...
Despite increasing U.S. tolerance, the fact is that it is still far from easy for blacks to be seen with whites. On the campus, white girls who date blacks risk rejection by white male classmates. "Off campus no place is really safe," says a young Negro journalist in Detroit. "When I have a white girl in my car, I don't stop at red lights, I make sure my car's in good condition with the gas tank full and a good spare. God forbid I should have to stop somewhere with a white girl...
...speaks from experience. Two angry Southerners followed him and his date out of a Detroit restaurant one night, announced they were going to teach him that colored boys should leave white girls alone. "One guy started to pull a pistol," he recalls, "but I was able to grab it before he could quite get it out of his pocket. I had to fight him in the street...
...fellow not of your race. You feel it a little bit," Vickie Hatcher says. So far, however, the Black Power exhortation to "look to your own first" is often ignored, even by Negroes who consider themselves confirmed Black Nationalists. Typical is Patrick Kelley, a 24-year-old Negro from Detroit, who calls himself "a living contradiction, thinking black but not being black. If I take a white girl into a black community, they will figuratively, with their eyes, pull over to the side and say, 'Brother, get hip. You're living a lie. Come over to the winning...