Word: negroness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...JOURNAL (NET, 9-10 p.m.). "Still a Brother: Inside the Negro Middle Class" is a study of the middle-class Negro's conflict between his new status and his sympathy with the black movement. Repeat...
CEREMONIES IN DARK OLD MEN is Lonne Elder's play about the disintegration of a black family amidst today's social protest, performed with verve and precision by the Negro Ensemble Company...
...South and its 50 million people face a year of enormous significance. 1969 is the most crucial year for school integration since the Supreme Court 15 years ago ordered that the system of dual schools for whites and blacks be dismantled. In 1968-69, only 20% of the Negro children in the South attended integrated schools; this fall, the percentage will nearly double. Moreover, the Government also inherited from the Johnson Administration plans to press -and press hard-upon those Southern education districts that had not yet begun realistic desegregation. School separatism seemed finally doomed, to the despair of diehard...
Nationally, Negroes hold only 2% of the 800,000 best-paying construction jobs and only 7.2% of all 2,900,000 building-crafts jobs. The disparity is greater in some areas, including Pittsburgh. A recent study by the mayor's Commission on Human Relations found that blacks made up 49% of the city laborers' union, but that Negro membership in most of the 25 other Pittsburgh building unions was under 2%. The unions representing electricians, ironworkers, asbestos workers and elevator-construction men are 100% white...
Maybe so, but why not send a telegram? Eddie West dies of Condon's sermonizing. The last half of the book develops a subplot involving West's compulsion to murder Negro women (his mother, who deserted him, was a very dark-skinned Sicilian). It is here that the dreary suspicion of allegory crosses the reader's mind. It may not be true that West is meant to stand for corrupt America, and the Negro women for America's blacks, but the book has been so mishandled by this point that no reader can be sure...