Word: doored
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Montgomery's segregation laws were complex: blacks were required to pay their fare to the driver, then get off and reboard through the back door. Sometimes the bus would drive off before the paid-up customers made it to the back entrance. If the white section was full and another white customer entered, blacks were required to give up their seats and move farther to the back; a black person was not even allowed to sit across the aisle from whites. These humiliations were compounded by the fact that two-thirds of the bus riders in Montgomery were black...
...Fair department store, boarded the Cleveland Avenue bus. She took a seat in the fifth row--the first row of the "Colored Section." The driver was the same one who had put her off a bus 12 years earlier for refusing to get off and reboard through the back door. ("He was still mean-looking," she has said.) Did that make her stubborn? Or had her work in the N.A.A.C.P. sharpened her sensibilities so that she knew what to do--or more precisely, what not to do: Don't frown, don't struggle, don't shout...
...interesting that the Franks' secret annex was concealed by a bookcase that swung away from an opening where steps led up to a hidden door. For a while, Anne was protected by books, and then the Nazis pushed them aside to get at a young girl. First you kill the books; then you kill the children. What they could not know is that she had already escaped...
...captains Brooke Herlihy (No.2) and Stephanie Teaford (No. 3) led a talented senior class that won two championships. Ramella, Lindsay Wilber, Ilana Eisenstein, Vanessa Hoerrman, and Katie Wallach will also close the door on their Harvard careers this year...
...door may be closed for seven irreplaceable Harvard seniors, but the rest of the women's squash team will attempt to find both a resurgence and redemption...