Word: forrestal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wrong attitude that got us bogged down in Viet Nam. What revisionists are saying is: we are mature enough to look at ourselves honestly and learn from our mistakes; and an honest look at the American past reveals a panorama of violence, racism, imperialism, demagoguery and economic exploitation. FORREST G. WOOD Associate Professor of History Fresno State College Bakersfield Center Bakersfield, Calif...
...that had marked earlier attempts to desegregate the state's schools. Nor, with the realization that Mississippi had gone beyond the point of no return, was there more than the expected chorus of protest as legal desegregation became a fact. White parents in the tiny (pop. 8,000) Forrest County community of Petal reacted angrily to a plan for busing their children. When a school official tried to explain the program, they borrowed a line from antiwar protesters and stormed out, chanting, "Hell no, we won't go." In Hattiesburg, 1,000 white parents paraded in a bone...