Word: laura
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Laura R. Benjamin '70, a spokesman for the Winthrop group, said the cur-rent participation is "too little to feel good about but too much to close down...
...Laura Calhoun, 18, University of Illinois...
...Laura is the daughter of a lawyer and a magazine writer. When the Calhouns first moved into the wealthy Chicago suburb of Kenilworth, they were greeted by crank calls and a cross burned on their lawn. Since last June, Laura has been wearing her hair Afro. "My God, yes, black is beautiful," says Laura. "The psychological tragedy of this country is that people have not come to grips with blackness. The black woman has got to realize that black is beautiful...
...Laura reflects the growing tendency of middle-class blacks to feel self-conscious about their own success and concerned about their brothers and sisters in the ghettos. "I'm not really black," she says, "until I know what's happening on every level of being black. For all that's happened in this country, we are still American citizens. Salvation for the black kids will come through education and then beating the white man at his own thing." Laura works in Operation Breadbasket's voter registration campaign. Her heroes are Martin Luther King, Julian Bond...
Earline inhabits a very different world from Laura Calhoun's. Born in Memphis to a Negro mother and Puerto Rican father, she has been on drugs for nine years, heroin for five. She has been raped twice; the second time she shot her attacker to death. A week before Christmas in 1968, she stabbed her mother, who had abandoned her years before. Earline has been arrested repeatedly-for forgery, robbery, manslaughter. Now she is in Chicago's Gateway House, a treatment center for drug addicts, trying to kick heroin...