Word: maes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Mae stands over her laundry in a wooden room in rural Tennessee. Lloyd sits in a chair near her, shivering under his blanket, devoured by a disease he is ashamed of and afraid to face. There is a perpetual tension between the two; Lloyd is sexually crippled and jealous of Mae, who has been seduced by an unbearable desire to educate herself. Indeed, at the school where she goes to learn rudimentary reading and mathematics, she has met an advanced reader named Henry, and she is falling in love...
These are the words of Freddie Mae Baxter, born into a poor family in the rural South 75 years ago. When her mother died, the teenage Freddie Mae left for the North, seeking work as a domestic. After a lifetime of caring for others--children and old people--she started talking into a tape recorder at the behest of a writer friend named Gloria Bley Miller, recalling what it was like to grow up in a big family in a little house with no indoor plumbing; to pick cotton; to live in "jivey" 1940s Harlem. Miller edited the reminiscences...
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...great job and was cute on stage," said 21-year-old Mae M. Hallak of Boston. "When her microphone stopped working and she couldn't talk, she handled it well. Things like that happen, and she didn't try to act too much like a professional about...
Black home ownership trails that of whites by nearly 30 percentage points--a gap Fannie Mae hopes to close. The federally chartered mortgage financier announced a partnership with the N.A.A.C.P. and BankAmerica last week to provide $110 million in financing aimed at helping disadvantaged blacks and other minorities obtain a mortgage with only a 3% down payment. For information on the program, which begins in a month, call...