Word: douglass
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...later to become a catch phrase of the early '60s: "The Pursuit of Excellence." He served on education task forces for Dwight Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson, played a major role in drafting the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. That act, says White House Aide Douglass Cater, "has Gardner's fingerprints all over...
...smoke bomb was tossed through the front door of the new Frederick Douglass Bookstore at 49 Mass Ave. in Boston between 2 and 2:30 a.m. yesterday...
After the picketing Saturday, Teixeira requested police protection because he feared violence. The demonstrators were members of the American Veterans Committee, Boston Local #1. They did not protest Teixeira's communism per so, but objected to the association of Frederick Douglass--"a genuine American here"--with a communist bookstore...
...this has been to produce thin supplementary books that fill the gaps in Negro history, ranging back to the fairly rich empires of 8th century Africa. They show the degradation of U.S. slavery, profile such authentic but little-known Negro leaders as Suffragette Mary Church Terrell and Abolitionist Frederick Douglass. They span the terrors of lynch law and report on today's freedom marchers. Best of the supplements are Doubleday's Zenith Books, written in a sixth-grade vocabulary but with an adult perspective...
Ruth Adams was born in New York City, educated at Long Island's Adelphi University, Columbia and Radcliffe. She tutored at Harvard, taught English for 14 years at the University of Rochester, went to Douglass to succeed Mary Bunting when Mrs. Bunting left in 1960 to be president of Radcliffe. At Douglass, Miss Adams has been a popular leader: she liberalized curfew hours, fended off attack by war veterans on a satirical poem in the campus magazine, told spooky stories to the girls on Halloween. She plainly admires firm administration but knows that the job consists of "making possible...