Word: negroness
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...Hall says. "There was even a hierarchy of quality: first we were told to look for a British-trained African; next a West-Indian, which was presumably the next best thing to someone British-trained; and as a last resort, we could maybe find an educated American Negro...
...satisfy his academic interest, Hall says he tried to take every course at the College that involved Africa. Hall became an active member of the AAAAS Committee on Negro Studies. The committee worked to introduce more Afro-American studies classes into the curriculum and to hire more Black faculty...
...seems obvious, I hope, that a course labeled American this or American that, in which the Negro receives little or no treatment, is not an intellectually valid course," he says...
...what the folks who fashioned prosthetic legs drolly called "stubbies." When Puller went to be fitted for the first time, the designer, himself a double amputee, told him, "We are all out of Caucasian legs, Lieutenant, but if you don't mind, we can fit you with some nice Negro ones." Puller was never able to walk with artificial legs of any color; he resigned himself to using a wheelchair. Accepting his disability wasn't easy, but he had the help of his courageous wife Linda, or "Toddy," as friends call her. He was also buoyed by the simple, touching...
...teenage religious fanaticism, a frustrated youthful romance with a white girl. Still, history is never distant from Gates' mind. His coming of age coincided with one of America's most tumultuous eras, as the civil rights movement propelled blacks from "the colored world of the fifties ((to)) a Negro world of the early sixties ((to)) the advent of the black world of the later sixties...