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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Several Negroes were included among the "minutemen" of the Revolutionary War. Crispus Attucks, Negro, was one of the first four soldiers to shed blood in behalf of U. S. liberty. Southern Aristocrat Jefferson openly opposed slavery; Henry Laurens, George Wythe, George Mason, George Washington tacitly did likewise. At Bunker Hill, Peter Salem, Negro, achieved distinction by killing Major Pitcairn. Jacob Bishop, Negro, was one-time pastor of the First Baptist (white) church of Portsmouth, Va. In 1773, in Maryland, two-thirds of those teaching both Whites and Negroes were felons. An escaping slave prior to 1865 wore "a black cloth...
...march of progress-who in America dares stand in its way? What city in the U. S. dares turn savagely upon its boosters crying to them: "O foolish Philistines!" There is such a city, an ancient city founded when the Indians still hunted over Murray Hill, and Boston Common was indistinguishable from the wilderness around. The breath of the golden century of Spain clings to Santa Fe's narrow streets, walled gardens, soft cathedral chimes. Soft Santa Fe has not, as they would say in Miami or Los Angeles, "kept pace with the march of progress." It is still...
...Roman writers commented on the power, at once placid and stern, a sort of deep pagan content, that lived in the head. Here was no irritable Roman Jove, waiting at the least vexation to scatter thunderbolts in all directions like sparklers, but a Grecian gentleman, portentous as a hill, poised serenely as a wave...
...camera. When he talks to his caddy, when he sits down to lunch, when he strolls in the wake of his drives, his face relaxes into large curves of good nature. Thus he looked when he arrived, half an hour late, at the St. George's Hill Club, Weybridge, England, to play the second half of a match with Abe Mitchell for a prize of ?500.* He was at that point four holes behind...
...Hazard, Ky., one Lucy Napier, 25, arrived at the railroad station with some things done up in a bundle. She had walked 40 miles from her father's hill cabin to take the train for Happy, Ky., where she was going to be married. She had never seen a train before, and as the old-fashioned car bumped over the rails toward Viper, Ky., she sat trembling on the edge of her seat. The conductor shoved his red face around the edge of the door. "Vi-p-e-E-R," he shouted, "V-I-I-per." Lucy Napier jumped...