Word: negroness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...would be police harassment of black voters to prevent the re-election of Mayor Stokes last November. The interference was expected at polling places late in the day, when city voters usually turn out in greatest numbers. But Breadbasket sent its band, accompanied by some 600 black teenagers, into Negro areas at 5 a.m. on election day. They raised such a racket that thousands of irate residents awoke?to be told to vote early in the morning. The early black turnout helped clinch a Stokes victory...
Earline inhabits a very different world from Laura Calhoun's. Born in Memphis to a Negro mother and Puerto Rican father, she has been on drugs for nine years, heroin for five. She has been raped twice; the second time she shot her attacker to death. A week before Christmas in 1968, she stabbed her mother, who had abandoned her years before. Earline has been arrested repeatedly-for forgery, robbery, manslaughter. Now she is in Chicago's Gateway House, a treatment center for drug addicts, trying to kick heroin...
What would America have been without the Negro? The question, however farfetched, periodically rises to the surface of the American imagination. For a discussion of the mystery and meaning of that question, TIME turned to Black Novelist Ralph Ellison, author of The Invisible Man and Shadow...
This fantastic vision of a lily-white America appeared as early as 1713, with the suggestion of a white "native American," thought to be from New Jersey, that all the Negroes be given their freedom and returned to Africa. In 1777, Thomas Jefferson, while serving in the Virginia legislature, began drafting a plan for the gradual emancipation and exportation of the slaves. Nor were Negroes themselves immune to the fantasy. In 1815 Paul Cuffe, a wealthy merchant, shipbuilder and landowner from the New Bedford area, shipped and settled at his own expense 38 of his fellow Negroes in Africa...
Nevertheless, some of the noblest of Americans were bemused. Not only Jefferson but later Abraham Lincoln was to give the scheme credence. According to Historian John Hope Franklin, Negro colonization seemed as important to Lincoln as emancipation. In 1862, Franklin notes, Lincoln called a group of prominent free Negroes to the White House and urged them to support colonization, telling them: "Your race suffers greatly, many of them by living among us, while ours suffers from your presence. If this is admitted, it affords a reason why we should be separated...