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...inducted, Sandy Koufax, 36, thanked the coach "who pushed me, shoved me, embarrassed me and made me work, and thank God for him." After similar expressions from Lefty Gomez, Early Wynn and Buck Leonard, it came time for the award to Josh Gibson, the greatest batter in the Negro leagues. Gibson died in 1947, but Josh Gibson Jr. was on hand to receive the plaque: "I want to say a personal word to my father: Wake up, Dad, you just made...
...local lawyer volunteered to bring a suit in federal court, and Irvis, himself a lawyer, took his case to the state human rights commission. Lodge 107 made no effort to conceal its policy. "Refusal of service," the lodge admitted before the commission, "was because K. Leroy Irvis is a Negro...
Jordan has his own talents. He grew up in Atlanta in the first public-housing project for blacks, earned a law degree, ran the Southern Regional Council's Voter-Education Project and was the highly successful head of the United Negro College Fund. While Jordan was with the fund, Young asked him to become his assistant. Vernon replied that he would not become anyone's deputy. Said Young: "The only other job for you here is mine, and it's not vacant...
...squad," is the way one of them explained their motives. Through the use of a series of "tapes" that make up the final report to the commissioner Mills is able to do the police in different voices: the cynic, the "book" man, the black who thinks of himself as "Negro," the Chief Inspector with a limited supply of courage...
...role cries out for someone with the versatility, verve, sensuality, humor, and bearing of black actress Diana Sands. Which raises another point: although she is often described as pure Greek, the historical Cleopatra was actually of racially mixed ancestry and would today be classified as Negro. The opening speech of Shakespeare's play calls her "tawny," and she even refers to herself as "black...