Word: jim
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Save for her piercing blue eyes, Lillian Smith hardly resembled a pioneering crusader for civil rights. Her manner was retiring, her voice soft and small. But her forceful message cut through the Georgia drawl: Jim Crow demeaned and diminished every Southerner, white or black. "Racial segregation has been a strong wall behind which weak egos have hidden for a long time," she wrote in 1951. She castigated Southern Governors who defied the U.S. Supreme Court's order to integrate the schools. As a result, she said, Southern whites "are losing their freedom to do right, to act as their...
...from Butler, Pa.-which happens to be near the home of the New York Jets' Joe Namath, who happens to have been Hanratty's boyhood hero. Ahead of every good passer, of course, there is a good receiver, and the Irish have one of those too: End Jim Seymour, 19, another sophomore, who stands 6 ft. 4 in., weighs 205 Ibs., runs like a deer and cuts like a cottontail...
...Jim Reynolds and Tom Harris get the first two shots at beating him out. They will both see action tomorrow against the Jumbos...
...will carry the barer of the Democratic Party -- or party of it anyway -- is not a racist in the sense of Jim Johnson of Arkansas or Lester Maddox of Georgia -- both primary victors this year. He has been around Maryland politics a long time and this year everything just worked out right for him.GEORGE P. MAHONEY The 58 cent victor...
Later, the Mayor spoke to the demonstrators, who tentatively put down their pointed demnads, "Jim Crow Must Go" and "Mayor Lindsay, We Want Schools," to listen. He talked about the need for better schools and about the city's growing resources to provide them. In the end, the crowd dispersed peacefully and everyone, including the Mayor, went home with a story to tell...