Word: negroness
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Harvard in the 1950s was a place where students could go to Sanders Theater and listen to a serious debate on the merits of desegregation. Arguing for the negative, a visiting journalist from the Winston-Salem Journal insisted, "Advancement for the Negro can best come gradually." His opponent, Thurgood Marshall, went on to prove him wrong in the year of my father's graduation, successfully arguing before the Supreme Court on behalf of a Topeka schoolgirl named Linda Brown...
...most difficult fact for white Americans to understand is that. . . the circumstances of the Negro American community in recent years [have]probably been getting worse, not better. The fundamental problem . . . is that of family structure. The evidence-not final, but powerfully persuasive-is that the Negro family in the urban ghettos is crumbling...
...more than a novel about budding aware ness. As the boy talks he reveals the South's new reconstruction: carpetbaggers who ar rive by jet from the Middle East to buy whole islands, the latest styles in scalawags and gentrification. Simons revisits Charles ton's old Negro market and finds that things have changed: "Bats, rafters, shale, pee, lead paint, clothes wads, the stuck bar ber pole, chili in open pots, all went to dropped ceilings for energy saving, parquet, rest rooms, pastel, jean shops, international flags waving in front of a deli store, and food described...
...America's last idyl, friends and family play out their lives in the Midwestern mill town, impervious to the Great Depression and the war that has already begun a world away. Here Tommy's parents lay down draconian laws, then act with well-meaning hypocrisy. The word Negro is never mentioned in the presence of a black steward because "the condition it described was thought to be embarrassing at best and irreversible in any case, and polite people did not call attention to the ill fortune of others, particularly when the others couldn't help it. Their...
While tuition fees provide on average about 55% of revenues for the nation's private colleges, they account for only 34% at the 42 privately funded black colleges. These institutions must depend on the Federal Government, which distributed about $83.4 million in 1981, and the United Negro College Fund, which this year expects to raise $28 million, vs. $25.8 million last year. The revenues are not enough. Says Clinton Marsh, president of Knoxville College in Tennessee, which has a $4 million annual budget and an endowment of only $300,000: "Our financial status is borderline. Unexpected emergencies such...