Word: jonesism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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A far more blatant example of the gap between talk and action came in Mississippi. After C. E. Jones, the personel director for Mississippi Power and Light, reported that his company was trying hard to recruit graduates of black colleges, several blacks at local schools confirmed his story. But there...
Richard V. Jones, associate dean of Engineering and Applied Physics-who was present throughout the demonstration "to preserve orderly procedures"-said he would not bring any charges against students who participated in the sit-in.
In less than two hours it provides an anthology of liberal cant bound in a dust jacket of selfesteem. Lord Byron Jones (Roscoe Lee Browne) is a wealthy undertaker with two sources of shame: his skin, which is black, and his wife (Lola Falana), who has been carrying on with...
Anyone familiar with Scenarist Stirling Silliphant's television work (Route 66) knows his fondness for the stereotypic. In L.B. Jones he has added extra fillips: not only are there shuffling old Negroes sassing the massuhs between yassuhs, there are also satanic, mush-mouthed cops who are rapidly replacing the...
At its first New York preview, The Liberation of L.B. Jones provoked a brief fistfight between a Negro youth and a white man. This response - which could echo at theaters around the country - accurately reflects the film: frustrating, morally ugly, and in the end as banal as evil itself.