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...amendment that would have allowed "voluntary prayer" in the nation's public schools. The national currency declares, "In God We Trust," and each day in the House and Senate commences with prayer. To vote against the idea was, emotionally at least, heretical. But as Utah Representative K. Gunn McKay, a Mormon elder, said, "I do not want Government tampering with my faith." Ohio's Samuel L. Devine replied: "The courts say you can read dirty books but can't pray in school...
...eventually evoke a response. The response did not come in Watts, but at Attica. There, men knew the pressures that had been applied to break Jackson, for they also lived with them. There, there was a man--perhaps several--who had written in his notebook the lines from Claude McKay's poem quoted above...
...begins a sonnet by the black poet Claude McKay. Although the poem was first published in 1922, it embodies much of George Jackson's attitude towards his imminent death during the last 18 months of his life. During that period, Jackson was confined first in the maximum security block of Soledad and then, after obtaining a change of venue that transferred his trial from Monterey to Marin County, in the Adjustment Center at San Quentin. Held in close confinement in prison, chained when he was taken out to appear in court. Jackson became less of a prisoner during this time...
...increase in cost resulting from the substitution was termed a "small fraction of the total cost" of the Center by Bernard Budiansky, McKay Professor of Structural Mechanics, and structural consultant at the July review session. The total cost of the center, scheduled for completion by September, is estimated at $17.6 million, exclusive of laboratory equipment...
...Used by permission of Twayne Publishers, copyright 1953 by Bookman Associates, Inc. from The Selected Poems of Claude McKay...