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CAMERA THREE (CBS, 11-11:30 a.m.). "La Belle Epoque: The Boyhood Photos of J. H. Lartigue," the famous French photographer whose pictures chronicle the peaceful period before World...
Decent Liberal. Some eloquent and sympathetic passages from the report that were incorporated into President Johnson's famous Howard University address in June 1965, won universal applause. But in the weeks that followed, civil rights leaders became increasingly disturbed by blunter items from the report that leaked into newspapers and magazines. Many of the stories emphasized the report's sensational findings about the family, often overlooking Moynihan's analysis of the causes, notably centuries of discrimination and economic deprivation...
...quilt depicts Harriet Tubman (1820-1913), the escaped slave who became the most famous conductor on the Underground Railroad and earned the title of "the Moses of her people." It is not so well known that she was also one of the more than 400,000 Negroes who took part one way or another in the Civil War. Commanding some 300 Union troops, she in 1863 led a highly successful and much-imitated foray into Confederate territory, freeing almost 800 slaves, driving the enemy inland, and inflicting losses estimated in the millions. An official dispatch at the time stated...
...Waring is represented by a picture of W.E.B. DuBois '90 (1868-1963), one of the most formidable intellectuals in American history. DuBois was the first Negro to receive a Harvard Ph.D. (in 1895), and his doctoral dissertation had the honor of being published as the first volume in the famous Harvard University Historical Series. Peggy Strong did the dignified portrait of Dr. Howard Thurman, now Dean Emeritus of Marsh Chapel at Boston University...
Adolph Lewisohn spent $300 a month just for shaves and took up tap dancing at 80. Before giving his famous dinner parties, Carl Loeb held dress rehearsals on the preceding evening-with real food, real wine and substitute, or second-string, guests. On entering Williams College in 1895, Herbert Lehman, who later became New York Governor and U.S. Senator, took along his private car and chauffeur. Therese, daughter of Fanny and Solomon Loeb, could not button her dress at 18: servants had always done...