Word: magnolia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...easy to see why. The city remains the black showcase of the nation. Some of America's wealthiest blacks live in suburbs hardly distinguishable from those inhabited by whites. Few white-owned ante bellum homes are more sumptuous than the black-owned mansions surrounded by dogwood and magnolia trees. Atlanta is said to be the only city in the nation that offers bus tours of the black sections of town...
...around a wide chimney. The room is hot and is smoky and full of that sweet sickening smell--like burning beans--peculiar to dirty houses with wood stoves. The plaster is cracking off the walls, revealing in places an old wallpaper from finer days, repeating and repeating a magnolia bordered portrait of your standard columned mansion house, through which irony we may fade...
Evans accepted the gavel that was graciously offered by the outgoing chair man, George Wallace, who would have once barred him from any white school in Point Clear, Ala., the magnolia-dotted town where this year's conference was held. As the two men warmly shook hands, Evans said: "The completely routine manner in which this historic event took place is indicative of a basic understanding and acceptance of principles which may have been in doubt in the past...
...there. He seemed safe and sound enough to local politicians to be selected as director of a new Economic Opportunity Commission project in 1965 The stated purpose of the program was to fight poverty in an isolated region of Appalachia, sprinkled with towns with names like Cinderella Hollow and Magnolia, but inhabited by people 50% of whom were officially classified as poor...
Sameness was not an enemy in convention hall. Gilbert Carmichael, who sells Volkswagens in Meridian, Miss., bakes a potato and fries a steak out in the backyard under a big old magnolia tree most Saturday nights "just like everybody else," and Alvin Berg, from McClusky, N. Dak., an undertaker, reads the daily newspapers (no books) and uses his spare time to pursue the walleyed pike in Brush Lake just like so many of his neighbors...