Word: kued
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...quarter-century later, Atlanta, it is said, has finally shaken off the dust of Georgia. What had been Forrest Street -- named for General Nathan Bedford Forrest, Grand Wizard of the original Ku Klux Klan -- is now named in memory of Ralph McGill, the anti-racist newspaperman who was once derided as Rastus McGill by people who now speak reverentially of his contribution to the community. The city's best-known monument is not a statue to the Confederate fallen but the grave of Martin Luther King Jr. The civil rights activists who once used Atlanta's airports to travel...
...company. In the meantime, 3,500 workers, demanding 50% pay hikes, had walked out at two machine-tool factories owned by Hyundai Precision and Industry Co. On May 27, strikers at one of the plants seized a five-story office building and took Hyundai Precision Chairman Chong Mong Ku and ten other executives hostage. The managers were released June 1 as police prepared to intervene...
...that appeared in Tucker's work in 1984. He turned to bronze, to figures -- everything his early sculptures had eschewed. This was as unexpected as the moment in 1970 when Philip Guston, known for 20 years as a painter of fugitive gray-rose webs, showed his first paintings of Ku Klux Klansmen and sent an avalanche of taste rolling toward "clumsy" figuration. What was the erstwhile constructor up to? This show tells...
...largest barrier to opportunity isn't the Ku Klux Klan, but the White House. Ronald Reagan has been a steadfast opponent of the Civil Rights movement, while Vice President George Bush has shamelessly backed his hostile stance...
When a group of Blacks tried to march through white Forsyth County, Georgia they were countered with the stars and bars. At Ku Klux Klan rallies from Maine to Mississippi, you'll see it as the symbol of white supremacy...