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...daughter of a janitor in Murray, Utah, she is the state's first female Golden Glove boxer. She has won her first eight fights (against boys), seven of them by technical knockouts in the first round, the eighth in the second. She is a blonde fifth-grader, age eleven...
...practice) and because many of them are church-affiliated, a great plus in the South. Many parents gladly send their children on long bus rides to get to the private schools. Admittedly, the academies may have eased the desegregation process to some degree. As one Meridian, Miss., white fifth-grader told his mother some years back: "There won't be any trouble; all the troublemakers have gone to the private schools...
Which brings us back to the Marcus Garvey House, and across the street to a bus pick-up corner, on Friday morning. A small kid, maybe a fourth grader, who I had noticed earlier holding his mother's hand in their doorway, whispering and pointing, suddenly broke loose and hustled up to the corner to join two other children waiting for their bus. "Hey, maybe we missed it," he was telling them before long, beginning to strut and lecture like a little headmaster himself. "We missed that bus, I'm telling you. It's gone," he kept repeating. And after...
Which brings us back to the Marcus Garvey House, and across the street to a bus pick-up corner, on Friday morning. A small kid, maybe a fourth grader, who I had noticed earlier holding his mother's hand in their doorway, whispering and pointing, suddenly broke loose and hustled up to the corner to join two other children waiting for their bus. "Hey, maybe we missed it," he was telling them before long, beginning to strut and lecture like a little headmaster himself. "We missed that bus, I'm telling you. It's gone," he kept repeating. And after...
When I was a fifth-grader in New York City, I was taken by the teacher to visit the Daily News on 42nd Street. With great pride, he pointed out that the copy boys running about were making $9 a week, were all college graduates, and that there was a long waiting list for the job. The message was clear: life in New York City is tough, you have to struggle and still you won't make...