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...United Air Lines two-engine Boeing 737, en route from Washington, D.C., to Omaha, suddenly revved its engines, tilted its nose high, then struck seven houses and crashed a mile and a half short of Midway. Miraculously, the plane apparently killed only two of the residents, and missed a grammar school by one block. But 43 of the 61 people aboard the plane died, including all three members of the cockpit crew. It was the worst domestic airline crash in 1972. Among the victims were Congressman George Washington Collins, 47, a black who won a November victory in Chicago...
Dave Rysky went to Our Lady Gate of Heaven, an ancient Catholic grammar school with nuns who beat wrong-doers and sinners and then Chicago Vocational School; CVS where Chicago Bear linebacker Dick Butkus went; a 5,000 pupil vocational school with print shops, auto shops, welding shops. Dave took auto shop, always wanted to, ever since I first met him in June...
...World. Communication between people who spoke diverse African languages was impossible until the growth of a common language based on the one language to which all the slaves that were shipped to North America were exposed--English. Black English is therefore a hybrid of African and English vocabulary and grammar...
...largest obstacles in teaching Black English is the lack of materials on the dialect. A comprehensive work laying out all the grammatical rules for Black English in addition to examining its vocabulary has yet to be written. Although Dillard's work contains a brief look at the grammar of Black English and an appendix on the pronunciation of the dialect, it is not sufficient. Though scholarly and well-written, the book is more a historical-sociological survey that a linguistics text. More work is needed in the field. Certainly a standard text on Black English for prospective teachers should...
Although the verb forms bring, begin, break, going and hear are in the present tense, they are consistent with past actions in the grammar of Black English. The grammar of Standard English would demand that every verb in a sequence be marked either past or present, but in Black English it is sufficient that only one of the verbs be marked...