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...asking every Negro to stay off the buses Monday in protest of the arrest and trial... You can afford to stay out of school for one day. If you work, take a cab, or walk. But please, children and grown-ups, don't ride the bus at all on Monday. Please stay off the buses Monday...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Torchbearer ROSA PARKS | 6/14/1999 | See Source »

Marshall never doubted that his side would prevail in the end. "You can say all you want," Marshall told a black newspaper publisher not long after Brown was decided, "but those white crackers are going to get tired of having Negro lawyers beating them every day in court." In time Marshall would persuade the court to extend the Brown principles to public accommodations ranging from public housing to beaches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Thurgood Marshall: The Brain Of The Civil Rights Movement | 6/14/1999 | See Source »

Before Jackie Robinson broke the color line, I wasn't permitted even to think about being a professional baseball player. I once mentioned something to my father about it, and he said, "Ain't no colored ballplayers." There were the Negro Leagues, of course, where the Dodgers discovered Jackie, but my mother, like most, would rather her son be a schoolteacher than a Negro Leaguer. All that changed when Jackie put on No. 42 and started stealing bases in a Brooklyn uniform...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JACKIE ROBINSON: The Trailblazer | 6/14/1999 | See Source »

Jackie's character was much more important than his batting average, but it certainly helped that he was a great ballplayer, a .311 career hitter whose trademark was rattling pitchers and fielders with his daring base running. He wasn't the best Negro League talent at the time he was chosen, and baseball wasn't really his best sport--he had been a football and track star at UCLA--but he played the game with a ferocious creativity that gave the country a good idea of what it had been missing all those years. With Jackie in the infield...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JACKIE ROBINSON: The Trailblazer | 6/14/1999 | See Source »

...Negro has the opportunity if he can--and wants to--take it," the article remarked, to explain why only 35 black students enrolled in the College that year...

Author: By Geoffrey A. Fowler, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Diversity Dilemmas | 6/10/1999 | See Source »

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