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With their new affluence, middle-class blacks tend to be conspicuous consumers. "Blacks want the same things as whites," says Francena Thomas, director of minority affairs at Florida International University. "They know what it is not to have and not to be allowed to get." Blacks buy 23% of all shoes sold in the U.S., 25% of all musical cassettes, more than 50% of Scotch whisky. Taking trips to the Caribbean, Mexico, Europe and Africa, they make up one of the fastest growing segments of the travel industry. Trans World Airlines offers special black tours of Europe that feature trips...
Despite the inevitable tension between blacks who have made it and those who have not, there is ample evidence that middle-class blacks are lending as much of a hand to their less fortunate brothers as most other ethnic groups in the past. Says Francena Thomas, the Florida educator: "Blacks feel that until all blacks have the tools to make it, no black has made...
Badminton: letters: Jacqueline Laueres '50, Edith Mullen '51, Sally Vincent '52. Numerals: Phoche Crampton '52, Jean McCormick '51, Francena Thomas...
...Francena Thomas '49 and Nina Emerson '50 will head the Council drive...
...girls nominated this week include Luretta Davis, Raquel Heller, Mary Lou Buckley, Donna Cook, Barbara Heanue, Ruth Reichart, all of them senior class officers, Mary Bruchholz, Alice Gilbert, Winifred Libbon, Joan McPartlin, Joan Projansky, Francena Thomas, Irene Tinker, and Suzanne Watson...