Word: ellisons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ashamed of my grandparents for being slaves," Ralph Ellison once wrote. "I am only ashamed for having at one time been ashamed." For all its cumbersomeness and speculative weak spots, Herbert Gutman's study has pried open an exit from black historical shame. Regardless of the later trials of Northern unemployment and additional problems that further study will undoubtedly point out, the message for slave history seems clear. The Sambo stereotype will just have to shuffle...
Once the black ceased to be "the invisible man," in Novelist Ralph Ellison's famous phrase, the vast majority of Americans moved to right the inequalities to which blacks had been subjected...
There were two major upsets in the City Council and School Committee races, as council president Gerald F. O'Leary and committeeman Paul F. Ellison were defeated in their bid for reelection...
...major shakeup occured in the five-member school committee, as moderate David I. Finnegan took the seat vacated by Kerrigan and Elvira "Pixie" Palladino, an East Boston anti-busing leader, beat out anti-busing incumbent Paul J. Ellison...
School committee chairman John J. McDonough was elected to his sixth term, finishing second, but Ellison, facing charges of alleged misuse of school department funds and hampered by a broken leg, was unable to ward off the challenge of Palladino, an outspoken busing...