Word: negroness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pathology" rationale: the structural impetus toward black unemployment that has long plagued the U.S. economy. Contrary to Moynihan's pompous suggestion, blacks can hardly thank "the healing powers of the democratic ideal and the creative vitality of the Negro people" for any success they have gained in the past 15 years. Rather the Gutman book testifies that creativity prospered long ago in the "living space" provided by antibellum slavery. It may have been after slavery that blacks had to struggle to keep that adaptive spark alive as doors to Northern skills and skilled jobs slammed shut. An "unidentified 38-year...
Heterosexual escapades also intrigued Hoover. One file requires 50 pages to recount the affairs of a member of Congress-name deleted-between 1960 and 1963. Another report indicates that FBI agents stalked a Congressman one night as he "picked up a Negro female at a low-class night spot and tried to take her to a tourist home." On the way, the report continues, he was "followed by two Negro males who assaulted him." There is no indication that the agents tried to stop the assault...
...reasons by many angry blacks, but Moynihan's analysis of the black family was a conventional one for its time. Scholars and political leaders alike depicted blacks as demoralized victims of racism. As late as 1966, Martin Luther King Jr. could declare: "The shattering blows on the Negro family have made it fragile, deprived and often psychopathic...
What of the other 50? "We have a Negro guitar player named Ray White with a red jumpsuit, and his dashing accomplice Bianca--they add an element of funk--and then there's me, for that Mediterranean raunch effect," he says...
...Wilmington, N.C., Star went to press with a frontpage photo of four Marines who were to testify in the court-martial of a drill instructor charged with brutality. When an editor noticed that one of the witnesses was black, he ordered an employee to chisel the Negro's image out of the press plate. The paper appeared with a ragged white space where the black face had been...