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...There was a time and need for the term Black after being called Negro by white people in power," explains Charles Witt, a Cornell senior. "There was a need for us to define who we were in our own terms," he says...
...acknowledging that the feeling is real. DuBois would have been sympathetic to the Black student far more than he would have been to Bloom. One of DuBois' central tasks was to show the important contributions of Black culture, to show that what he termed the "Sorrow Songs," the Negro spirituals, were the equivalent of Shakespeare...
...matter because it involves the labeling of some 30 million North Americans (and millions in the Caribbean and Latin America) who can trace part of their ancestry back to Africa. In our search for a positive identity of our own choosing, we have gone from African, to Colored, to Negro, to Black (a protest term which demonstrated that we preferred to identify with our African rather than our European-American past...
Wasn't that a time? Each year of the early 1960s brought new images of heroism and horror as the civil rights movement spread through the South like kudzu. 1960: four Negro students sit in at a Greensboro, N.C., lunch counter. 1961: the Congress of Racial Equality inaugurates its Freedom Rides to integrate Southern bus terminals. 1962: in Oxford, Miss., James Meredith enters Ole Miss, its first black student since Reconstruction...
...quizzes a young black; that night the youth is tortured. Ward's way is to send his agents wading solemnly through a Jessup swamp in their dark gray suits, looking for all the world like a lost patrol of Blues Brothers. The result is only frustration and conflagration, as Negro churches, schools, shacks go up in flames. Anderson, a native Mississippian, knows how to talk to the natives: threaten the men, seduce the women. He will take a razor to the neck of Deputy Sheriff Pell (Brad Dourif). He will take flowers to Mrs. Pell (McDormand), who functions...