Word: insing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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A Favor Rewarded. John Patterson was elected Governor of Alabama, and he set right out to make a segregationist record. He expelled students from Alabama State College for Negroes who took part in sit-ins, promised to close down the University of Alabama if it accepted a Negro. If anyone...
Diane Nash, 22, has earned combat stripes in the Negro protest movement: two arrests for taking part in sit-ins. Born on Chicago's South Side, she studied at Washington's Howard University between secretarial jobs, transferred to Fisk University in Nashville in 1959 ("I wanted to come...
Cordials & Bicarb. In Texas, where most of the cooking is so bad that bicarb has replaced the after-dinner cordial, many topnotch restaurants, such as Azzarelli's in Houston, are ignored. So many routine drive-ins are listed in Arkansas that top-drawer restaurateurs complain that their own stars...
At times his reception has taken a more subtle turn. Last March, digging into sit-ins at the Jackson, Miss., public library, Trillin arranged an interview with Mayor Allen Thompson. "When I arrived," Trillin recalls, "many of the local press were in the mayor's office. So were the...
Smith helped smooth the integration of Nashville's public schools, which had got off to a rock-throwing, bomb-hurling start. Today, some 180 Negro students attend nine formerly all-white schools, and the number increases-almost unnoticed-each year. Again, last year, when Nashville's lunch-counter...