Word: eventers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...powers of patronage might conceivably go to the G.O.P. for the first time in the state's history. Republican Paul Eggers, 49, a Wichita Falls lawyer who was virtually unknown when he was picked for the race by Senator John Tower, will in any event gain from the Democratic split...
...search for answers proceeds, however guiltily or imperfectly, with new resolve. Since the murder of Martin Luther King, says Whitney M. Young Jr., executive director of the National Urban League, civil rights has stopped being a "spectator sport." Like no other single event in the history of U.S. race relations, the assassination of King, a man who staked his life on his country's conscience, drove home the need for personal commitment to a cause that can easily be lost by default. "The vast untapped resources of the silent, decent people have been awakened," wrote Young in his syndicated...
...yardstick for the historical delimitation of the Black Experience. With this yardstick, therefore, it would be unthinkable if not treasonable to use the Haitian political experience as an historical example of something relevant and meaningful to the overall Black Experience. Instead, one would have to turn to an historical event like the slave trade to the Western Hemisphere in order to find ideological and emotional sustenance for what I can now call the black racialist or nationalist view of the Black Experience. In this view of the Black Experience, the slave trade is seen as the beastly act of beastly...
...daresay, little more than an offshoot of the Human Experience--no better and no worse. Perhaps I can put this point in sharper relief by reference to other features of the slave trade to the Western Hemisphere that seldom appear in the black nationalist view of this horrofying historical event. To those who take the historiography of the slave trade seriously, it is commonplace that leading and entrepreneurial groups in Negro African societies were voluntarily privy to the slave trade. These groups saw the trade in slaves as an economic relationship, from which enormous wealth and political advantage could...
Kirkland stayed in the running only because of Banys's 6' 4" leap in the high jump and his second in the broad jump. On Friday, Kirkland and Dudley shot out ahead of all the other Houses in the early dash events, so that it was a two team meet by the final half mile relay. Leverett nosed out Dudley to win the event in 1:37.6, but Kirkland took third to maintain the victory margin...