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...graduation ceremonies this year, all is not pomp and circumstance. When George Bush spoke in mid-May at Hampton University, students angered by his civil rights policies displayed the clenched-fist sign. Among others getting a chilly reception...
Eyes on the Prize II (PBS). Henry Hampton's first documentary series about the civil rights movement stopped at 1965, just when things were getting complicated. His sequel continued the story, from the Black Panthers to busing in Boston, and sorted out the issues with the same insight and evenhandedness...
...Hamptons said goodbye to the South on their wedding day in 1960. "He was muzzled down, the black man, muzzled down when it came to the white man," says Joseph Hampton. "Like a child abused by his parents, he'd act so scared, you know." But if segregation drove Hampton away from his roots, it also helped drive him back: Florence Heights, the predominantly white west-side neighborhood he chose in Los Angeles, quickly turned all black after his arrival. And while partitions and signs did not hem in the Hamptons' liberty, crime and congestion eventually did. A family...
...road to Marion, there are posters trumpeting the Louisiana Senate candidacy of David Duke, the ex-Klansman who lost last October's nonpartisan primary but won an estimated 60% of the white vote. Joseph Hampton sees nothing alarming in this. From his post-emigre perspective, he feels Louisianians have taken down their COLOREDS ONLY signs and muffled their racial prejudice under thick, soothing layers of courtesy. When he visits Wal- Mart, the discount chain store, there are professional "greeters" at the door. The auto dealer in nearby Monroe made a toll call to find out if he was satisfied with...
California may have given Southern blacks a chance to make a comfortable living -- Hampton pulled in $50,000 a year with overtime making parts for Northrop Aircraft -- but its residents kept a businesslike distance. "Neighbors are very hard to find in California unless there's money behind it," he says. He would trade California's officious tolerance for Louisiana's sweet hypocrisy any day. "As long as you make me feel as though I've got as much right as you've got, fine. If you've got borderlines, let them be in your mind." For some blacks resettled...