Word: negroness
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...hall has been provided with entirely new service and new equipment which are expected to improve the quality of the dining hall. White waitresses have been substituted for negro waiters, and a complete stock of new tables and easy armchairs has been put in," The Crimson reported. "Not only will the menu be more varied in the future, but white table clothes, out of use for over a dozen years, will be restored...
...they probably haven't bought Jackie Robinson...yet. But when I see a commercial that is praising Robinson's contributions to the game, when I hear Reggie Jackson thank Robinson for making it possible to play in October, when I hear some old Negro Leaguer praising Robinson for doing something that so many people couldn't, I want it to come from the heart, from the players, from the game of baseball itself. I do not want it to come from Nike...
...were ready, baseball could take the risk. How familiar these arguments sound a half-century later in the debate over affirmative action. It's not remarked on much these days, but Robinson was the product of a unique brand of preferential treatment. He was not the best ballplayer the Negro Leagues had to offer, but he was still the best candidate to step over the color line. At 28, with World War II service in the Army behind him, Robinson was mature and tough enough to withstand the taunts of racist fans and opposing players. He was married...
Robinson had the guts to speak out against racial injustice after he retired from baseball. In 1963 he traveled to Birmingham to be with Martin Luther King Jr. after four little black girls were blown to bits in the bombing of a church. "The answer for the Negro is to be found, not in segregation or separation, but by his insistence upon moving into his rightful place, the same place as that of any other American within our society," he argued. He didn't back down from his integrationist stance even when more militant blacks called him an Uncle...
Powell (a board member of the United Negro College Fund, Howard University, the Boys and Girls Clubs of America and Gulfstream Aerospace Corp.) is actually Powell Inc., which he runs from his house in McLean, Virginia, and a boxy little office nearby that's decorated with Army memorabilia, a print of Teddy Roosevelt charging San Juan Hill and a collection of gimme coffee mugs. His day job is to give speeches for big fees, but he is spending 30% of his time now on the summit and expects that to grow...