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One would expect such an issue to have been studied to exhaustion. In fact, it has barely been touched. The best text available on it in English, up to now, was published more than 40 years ago by the American art historian Robert Goldwater. Hence the extreme interest of the...
The Notebook of a Return to the Native Land, first published in 1939, is an extended lyric poem, and was the first appearance of "negritude" in print. In choosing the word, its creators had simply latinized the derogatory word for black in French (negre) and attached an augmentative suffix. Lacking...
Louis Negre, a gardener in Bakersfield, Calif., is a French immigrant whose family came to the U.S. partly because of their opposition to French involvement in Viet Nam. Negre, 23, said no to the military only after completing basic training and receiving orders to Viet Nam, by which time he...
Gillette and Negre claimed, among other things, that the draft law violates the First Amendment ban against governmental "establishment of religion." It does so, they said, by favoring denominations that preach total pacifism while penalizing others that oppose only unjust wars. Speaking for the court majority, Justice Thurgood Marshall noted...
The Court made the decision after hearing the cases of Guy P. Gillette of Yonkers, N. Y. and Louis A. Negre of Bakersfield, Calif. Gillette is a self-described humanist and Negre is a Roman Catholic who based his opposition to the Indochina war specifically on religious training.