Word: martinisms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Black leaders were pleased by McHenry's appointment. Said Coretta King, the widow of Martin Luther King Jr.: "I feel he will be a tremendous asset to our nation. He will continue in the same spirit as Andy in terms of trying to win friends for America." The Rev. Joseph Lowery, president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, was equally enthusiastic. "There may be a change in style from Andy. McHenry won't be as informal, but there won't be a change in the battle for world peace." While more restrained, Jewish leaders also expressed satisfaction...
...temperament to care about little people, not the way Lyndon Johnson did." Former Congresswoman Barbara Jordan, who testified as a character witness for Connally at his milk trial, wrote in her memoirs that she remembers how she was standing on a platform with him when word came of Martin Luther King Jr.'s death and the Governor said, "Those who live by the sword die by the sword...
...successful Chicanos and Asian Americans, most of them smiling a lot. Blacks were there before, but mainly as slaves and oppressed sharecroppers. Now they are scientists wearing lab coats. In the old pantheon of black leaders George Washington Carver and Booker T. Washington have been joined not only by Martin Luther King Jr. but by Radical Educator W.E.B. Du Bois and Black Abolitionist Frederick Douglass. Susan B. Anthony has replaced Dolley Madison. As for the oldest of ethnic heroes, Christopher Columbus, he is only a bit player...
...past, for good or ill. Frances FitzGerald has kind words for some of the new texts - and techniques. Among them: so-called "inquiry" texts which, instead of presenting a strict chronology, offer primary sources organized around specific continuing historical issues: The People Make a Nation by Martin W. Sandier, Edwin C. Roswenc and Edward C. Martin delves extensively into such topics as "The Centralization of Power" and ";The Black Looks at Himself." A section on "Founders and Forefathers" includes quotations from John Winthrop to Oscar Handlin...
...Cruel Shoes, Martin...