Word: evelyn
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...class means you can live above the survival level and have some whims as well as needs," says the Rev. William Lawson, a Baptist preacher in Houston. For Mary Davis, a Chicago urban planner, being middle class means "going to a good school, being clean and taking a bath." Evelyn Thompson, a reporter for KOOL-TV in Phoenix, recalling the well-done cuts of cheap pork that poor blacks consume, observes: "You know a black has been assimilated into the middle class if he eats rare meat...
...first they looked at us, looked away and then acted like we had knocked the breath out of them." The speaker was George Wallace Jr., 22, a history major at Montgomery's Huntingdon College. With Evelyn Bradford, 18, a black student, he undertook a project for their social problems course. Posing as an engaged couple, they went apartment hunting in Montgomery. George reported to the class that three out of four landlords slammed the door in the couple's faces. Then he added: "I thought attitudes would be worse, but times are changing." Asked about...
...broke into private homes, shouting obscenities and roughing up the terrified occupants. Mrs. Pamela Kaye Gitto of East St. Louis has charged that the men pointed a gun at her sleeping six-year-old son and struck her husband while he was handcuffed to a chair. Herbert and Evelyn Giglotto of Collinsville were handcuffed face down on their bed. While Mrs. Giglotto begged for her husband's life, she claims that the intruders ransacked their bedroom...
...Evelyn Y. Davis has filed resolutions with five corporations--Chase Manhattan Bank, Manufacturers Hanover Trust, Ford, J.C. Penney and Xerox--calling on them to publish in newspapers the details of any political contributions they have made in the last fiscal year. Davis also called on General Electric and Ford to affirm their "political nonpartisanship...
According to Evelyn Lincoln, Kennedy's personal secretary, the note was written by the president on the day Kennedy delivered his first public address on the crisis...