Word: kept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...anything to fear from white folks, but the colored boy hoodlums in my neighborhood scare me to death. You might as well be living in the Congo. The white folks in neighborhood stores where you get a little credit have moved and are moving away and property is not kept up and is ruined. I have to say we Negroes did it all. We destroyed a fine neighborhood that others built. We got to quit blaming others and depending on the Government and expecting miracles overnight and now we got to work ourselves...
...from Ireland, Poland or Italy whose attitude toward the Negro is: We made it; let them. I hold that Paddy and Sambo are not the same people. Paddy's ancestors came here because they ran out of potatoes in Ireland, while Sambo was dragged here in chains, and kept in ignorance by Southern plantation owners...
...strong family unit in which the father's word was law, and, whereas the Negro's basic spirituality has been castrated by the splintering of sects within the Negro community, the Irish exiles were united in one strong religious faith. Thus, young Paddy could be kept from allowing his fine temper to prevail by fear of family wrath-or worse, a session with the priest. But more's the power to you, Mr. Moynihan. A grand young man like you could even give the Kennedys a run for their money...
Meredith is also endorsing incumbent Governor Paul Johnson for the Lieutenant Governorship. Johnson, who has kept racial tensions comparatively low during his term, cannot succeed himself as Governor and has set an historical precedent by running for the number two spot. Part of the Williams' appeal is that he would continue the relative calm of the Johnson years. Johnson faces the personal attacks of six opponents in the race for Lieutenant Governor. They include the same Beckwith whom Waller prosecuted for the murder of Evers; he is currently on $10,000 bond and is in the thick of the race...
...fear and trembling," she set about burning his manuscript of The Scented Garden, an encyclopaedic sex manual whose translation from the Arabic had occupied Burton's last years (a partial version survived). Also into the flames went his private journal of 40 years, which he had kept under lock and key. This act left her free to clean up Ruffian Dick for the visitors and write a biography of "the most pure, the most refined and modest man that ever lived...