Word: lunches
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Negroes faced snarling police dogs. They went to jail by the thousands. They risked beatings as they sat on lunch-counter stools. They were bombed in their homes. They were clubbed down by cops. They sent out their children to battle men. In the weeks, months and even years to come, there will be lulls in the revolution. But it will revive-for, after the spring of 1963, there can be no turning back...
Pain & Silence. Last week, as in all weeks, the center of the revolution was in the U.S. South. In Jackson, Miss., sit-in demonstrators entered a segregated five-and-ten lunch counter, sat stoically on the stools as white roughnecks crowded around them. At first there were only insults. Then the whites seized catchup bottles, mustard and sugar dispensers, spattered the stuff all over the demonstrators. Still there was only that stolid silence...
...moral and political force that his office and prestige can command, Negroes could count some breakthroughs last week. The University of Kentucky became the first school in the Southeastern Conference to open its athletic program to Negroes. Atlanta announced it would integrate its swimming pools. Negroes were allowed to lunch in five Charlotte, N.C., hotels and motels that were previously segregated. Harold Richardson, the first Negro to run for office in Maine (where Uncle Tom's Cabin was written 112 years ago) was elected a trustee of the Portland water district. Across the nation, Negro boycotts of U.S. businesses...
Last week Britons could talk of little else but a cool little coup in which four men swiped a half-ton of gold from a financial-district bullion warehouse in the lunch hour. After tying up a watchman, the villains nonchalantly lugged forty 27-lb. gold bars-worth $560,000 -across a sidewalk into a blue delivery van, then made a clean getaway despite a traffic-stopping dash the wrong way on a one-way street. Hoping to keep the culprits from leaving the country, Scotland Yard posted men at every airfield and seaport in Britain. Flying-squad officers checked...
...yielded an almost tax-free income of $7,000,000 a year at a time (1900) when the average individual income was $490, and at Hetty's death in 1916 it was estimated at anywhere from $100 million to $200 million. Hetty helped protect it by carrying her lunch-dry oatmeal-to the desk provided for her by the Seaboard National Bank. And she saw to it that not a cent or a spoonful of oatmeal went to charity...