Word: lawd
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...James's attorney, Raymond Rubin, scoffed at Powell's offer to settle for $33,000, declaring, "He's not showing any good faith." And, Rubin disclosed, Mrs. James is going to become a recording artist too. Her record will be called No Man Is Above de Lawd, and will include one song with the pointed lyric...
...That's just my teamsters rollin' in "Lawd, Lawd...
...they register. Nonetheless, admits Clarence Mitchell, N.A.A.C.P.'s chief Washington lobbyist, "we need to put in more effort." The most conspicuous absentee from the registration campaign has been Martin Luther King, who for years raised Negro suffrage as his battle cry. Since winning the Nobel Prize, "De Lawd," as his followers call King, has been so preoccupied with global affairs, such as the war in Viet Nam, that he has had little time for the cotton-picker vote...
...novelist, never having written a novel before. Connelly is the man who wrote The Green Pastures, an unforgettable delight that opened on Broadway 35 years ago, ran for 640 performances there and 1,002 more on the road. Its Negro cast spoke in outrageous dialect: "Gangway for de Lawd!" Black angels held fish fries in Heaven and dispensed 10? seegars to newcomers. It might jar contemporary liberals, but Pastures in its day had all the impact of a Negro spiritual; it won the 1930 Pulitzer Prize for drama...
With evening, many of the people was home to supper. At 9 p.m. over packed Beulah Baptist Church, a blocks from Jackson St., where the Ralph Abernathy (SCLC) and For spoke. Finally De Lawd himself area. His speech was the same one that be given in Birmingham, on the Washington March, and in St. Augustina finally he spoke the words the people wanted to hear: "Tomorrow we march in the streets of Montgomery the thousands!" The people rose cheered, believing that tomorrow the would be the victors