Word: negroness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Charles C. Jones, in the year 1854, was a prosperous plantation owner who lived with his intensely pious wife on the Georgia coast south of Savannah. Though aging and in fragile health, he was still noted as a Christian missionary to the Negro slaves. His son Charles was at Harvard, studying law and observing with righteous outrage the schemings of abolitionists and other anarchists. His other son, Joseph, was in Philadelphia studying medicine. Jones' brothers, sisters, cousins, and their swarming children, lived on other coastal plantations or in Marietta and Savannah. They were loyal, often loving. They bustled with...
Dorothy I. Height, D.C.L., president, National Council of Negro Women. I.M. Pei, LL.D., architect. His work is blueprinted in humanism and quarried in an ideal vision of man's habitat...
...group complained that the figures were "obviously" white; another claimed they were "obviously" black. The truth, says Artist Linda Sagan (Carl's wife), is that she intended to show the man as Negro and the woman as Oriental, thus portraying diverse racial characteristics...
There were more curiosities to come: Spiritual Music from New England tune books of the late 18th century, richly melancholy Negro spirituals, then a leap to Charles Ives' quirky but equally spiritual Three Harvest Home Chorales-still sounding sonorously dissonant and as futuristic as ever...
...recognized a number of the signatories to this plea for amnesty and nearly all of them are beneficiaries of financial and from Harvard. Currently perhaps is per cent of Harvard's scholarship grants are expended on Negro students who comprise 6 per cent of Harvard students...