Word: negroness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...HOPE, PA. Bucks County Playhouse. The wife of a screwball American runs off with a Negro in Novelist Bruce Jay Friedman's flagellatingly funny first comedy, Scuba Duba...
SONS OF DARKNESS, SONS OF LIGHT, by John A. Williams. In this novel, set in 1973, a normally reasonable Negro civil rights leader hires a gunman to avenge the death of an unarmed black boy shot by a white New York City policeman. The result evokes the tragedy of a sleepwalking American society that can be awakened only by violence...
...business with companies that discriminate. But they've got contracts up to here with The American Can Company. The American Can Company has its own little company-run town in Bellamy, Alabama. Stores, schools, churches, and neighborhoods are segregated in Bellamy. There's no plumbing in the Negro homes, their streets aren't paved, they get paid less. It's a really tough town. Jim Peppler, the Courier's dare-anything photographer who took pictures of some of the meanest crackers in the state, just drove down the main street of Bellamy shooting his camera from on top the dashboard...
...went out to dig up information on a story I was sure we were going to be shot. Civil Rights workers were murdered all the time in '66. A lady from Detroit, Mrs. Luizzo, had been killed in 1965 near Selma for riding in a car with some Negro guys. On my first story for the Courier, I and another guy were jumped by three men who tried to beat us up. We used to be stopped all the time by the local police, who committed most of the CR murders. But the biggest change now is probably...
...that, too, has seen its day. It seems that just about everyone's registered that wants to be. There are over 400 elected Negro officials across the state now (most of these are justices of the peace). But that doesn't seem to change anything. The big hope for the electoral process came in 1966 when Richmond Flowers ran for governor. Negroes put up candidates in more races than they ever have important offices. People don't look to the elections. It was only the most blatant and simple kinds of discrimination that could be undone by such...