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...history of our situation is so much more complex than the "goddamn-white-man" outlook would allow. The Black Muslim talk about "the blue-eyed devil who enslaved us" is really just so much nonsense. Africans, after all, willfully sold their kith and kin, your ancestors and mine, into slavery to the New World. What is more, the African chiefs and middle-men who participated in the slave trade were aware that thousands on each slave ship would die like dogs of diseases before reaching their destination in Brazil, Guiana, West Indies, or the American South. This...

Author: By Martin Kilson, | Title: Open Letter to a Negro Student at Harvard | 3/17/1965 | See Source »

...Subsequently convicted by court-martial, the English-born Lee died in disgrace and degradation four years later. He was no kin to the Revolutionary hero "Light Horse Harry" and the other famous Lees of Virginia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Painting: Upstaging History | 2/26/1965 | See Source »

...modern vacuum radio tube, bought by RCA for $500,000 in 1926, to the first radio-guided torpedoes, while pouring his considerable royalties into his Gloucester, Mass., home, a massive Gothic castle complete with moat, drawbridge, and a 10,000-pipe, 100-stop organ (he was no kin to the Hammond organ family); of hepatitis; in Gloucester...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Feb. 26, 1965 | 2/26/1965 | See Source »

...action. North of the 17th parallel, U.S. intelligence sources noted no unusual signs of activity, either in Hanoi's 225,000-man army or in a Red Chinese force of 300,000 that has been massed just over the North Vietnamese border since last summer's Ton kin Gulf crisis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign Relations: A Look Down That Long Road | 2/19/1965 | See Source »

...kin to Director Elia Kazan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Do Stars Grow in Brooklyn? | 2/19/1965 | See Source »

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