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...interesting or endurable in reverse proportion to their currency, so I'll try to make my one point briefly. When each of you was at The Crimson I'm sure that there was a theme that you talked about when you were sitting about in the offices, the Ku Klux Klan, or the wars, or the Ibis. For us it was the end of the world, (laughter). One illustration we always took to prove this general theory was the tremendous telescoping of time, how our brothers and sisters who were in high school we could hardly recognize; when they came...
...famous before she could perform in the best New York clubs and making a same for herself required extensive tours all over the country--including the South. The sequences depicting the one night stands, and encounters with racims give the movie its depth. A scene in which Ku Klux Kinsmen attack Holliday's touring bus is the most memorable. As they swirled outside the vehicle, she is reduced to importent rage. There is nothing that she, a lone black woman, can do against that son of whiteness, except to distill her anger into songs. And that is the message...
...KIND OF life into which Malcolm was born is depicted by film-library footage of Southern plantations and Ku Klux Klan meetings while the narrator, James Earl Jones, repeats the first paragraph from Malcolm's autobiography...
When my mother was pregnant with me, she told me later, a party of hooded Ku Klux Klan riders galloped up to our home in Omaha. Nebraska, one night. Surrounding the house, brandishing their shotguns and rifles, they shouted for my father to come out. The Klansmen shouted threats and warnings at her that we better get out of town because "the good Christian white people" were not going to stand for my father's "spreading trouble" among the "good" Negroes of Omaha with the "back to Africa" preachings of Marcus Garvey...
...similar but more scholarly views of Psychologists Richard Herrnstein at Harvard and Arthur Jensen at Berkeley). Graffiti on Stanford walls have urged, "Sterilize Shockley." He has been burned in effigy. On two occasions his classes were broken up by hostile students, some flaunting the sheets of the Ku Klux Klan...