Word: negroness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Died. Richard P. Loving, 42, a Virginia construction worker whose marriage to his Indian-Negro childhood sweetheart led to a landmark civil rights ruling; in an auto accident; in Caroline County, Va. Routed from bed at 2 a.m. five weeks after their 1958 marriage, the Lovings were sentenced to a year in jail or 25 years of exile from the state for violating Virginia's antimiscegenation laws. After five hardscrabble years in Washington, D.C., they chose to return home and fight the statute, winning in 1967 the Supreme Court's ruling in Lovings v. Virginia that voided...
...Tools. Critics were quick to call the report premature and unsubstantiated. NAACP Executive Director Roy Wilkens wondered whether Coleman was being used to "draw the Negro away from the courts." But Coleman still firmly believes in school integration. The problem, he says, lies in the way that courts have tried to bring it about. "It is ludicrous to attempt to mandate an integrated society. Integration must come through other means...
John Hope Franklin, L.H.D., historian and author (From Slavery to Freedom: A History of Negro Americans...
...National Association for the Advancement of Colored People was a more successful venture, but DuBois's own relationship with the organization was tempestuous. He served as the editor of Crisis, NAACP's official publication until 1933, when he found that his program for "Negro self-sufficiency" and limited segregation was not acceptable to the group's liberal leadership. He returned in 1944, only to be dismissed by the NAACP in 1948 as part of a campaign to purge communists and communist sympathizers from its ranks...
...same time, those mathematical works that do find their way into discussions in or out of the classroom are being accepted too uncritically. The massive reevaluative scholarship on slavery, summarized in Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery by Robert William Fogel (who will teach at Harvard beginning next year) and Stanley Engerman, is now the single best-known work of quantitative history. The book is published in two volumes--the first presents the conclusions, while the second, more technical volume explains how the authors got there. Much of the second volume cannot be understood without advanced...