Word: lincoln
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...classical bastions like Carnegie Hall and receiving invitations from presidents and prime ministers, Mahalia emerged as a symbol of the civil rights movement. In 1963 millions of TV viewers watched as, standing next to Martin Luther King just before his "I've Got a Dream" speech at the Lincoln Memorial, she summed up the frustrations and aspirations of the movement with I Been 'Buked and I Been Scorned. But as star or symbol, she refused to take herself too seriously. "Ever since I began singing in the big concert halls," she said, "people have been trying to teach...
...Lincoln Steffens went to the Soviet Union and came back with the report, "I have seen the future, and it works." Similar enthusiasms for the New Soviet Man were voiced by Andre Gide, George S. Coints and dozens of other visitors. All of this was summed up in the incredible book by Sydney and Beatrice Webb: Soviet Russia, A New Civilization...
...they were eventually reinstated, several parents fought for the principle in court. A three-judge federal panel concluded that Dixie was merely "a typical American song with a gay and catchy tune" and not a "badge of slavery." The court's answer would have won the approval of Abraham Lincoln. On the day after Appomattox, he instructed the military bands outside the White House to strike up Dixie. Said the President: "I have always thought Dixie was one of the best tunes I have ever heard...
Still, it is possible to make a case of sorts to support the claim that Abraham Lincoln had some black forebears. Rogers also badly states that Hannibal Hamlin, who was Vice-President during the Civil War, "was undoubtedly of Negro ancestry." This topic is further discussed both in the old biography of Hamlin by his grandson and in a new one. Nobody disputes that Hamlin had jet-black hair and eyes, a broad nose, and very dark skin...
...race is, in fact, racist. That is, it would be Mark's position, apparently, that a scholarship fund established for blacks is racist because it helps only blacks. There should be programs only for the improvement of humanity; Martin Luther King becomes the counterpart of Robert Welch and George Lincoln Rockwell...