Word: niagara
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...grown-up John Thomas never cries. He works for an orthopedic supply house, and he is the Boston representative for something called Niagara Cyclo-Massage machines. He collects jazz records, lives in a two-room basement apartment jammed with fur pelts, tribal masks and African sculpture ("the Congo Hilton," he calls it). "Now I'm going to see what life is really all about," he says. But first there is that Olympic gold medal he intends to win next fall in Tokyo. "It's between me and that bar," says Thomas...
...July 9, 1905, 29 Negroes met secretly in Canada near Niagara Falls in a response to a letter from Dr. DuBois. The next year the "Niagara Movement" met at Harper's Ferry, and publicly commemorated John Brown. By 1910 this movement became the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. DuBois left his Atlanta position, where his views were becoming too radical, and moved to New York. There he became the chief propagandist for the NAACP, acting for 23 years as the editor of Crises...
Died. William Edward Burghardt Du Bois, 95, Negro philosopher and editor, a founder of the N.A.A.C.P., since 1961 a card-carrying Communist; in Accra, Ghana. Du Bois won a Harvard Ph.D. in 1895, took an early lead in Negro agitation as head of the militant Niagara Movement; when it merged with the N.A.A.C.P. in 1909, he became the association's only Negro officer and editor of its monthly magazine The Crisis, got in trouble with his fiery editorials advocating separate "self-dependence" for his race, left for good in 1948 in a dispute over-of all things-his endorsement...
Breaking the old monotony of statesman portraits, Mrs. Kennedy's undertaking has brought to the White House many fine nonportrait paintings. There are still lifes by the Peales of Philadelphia, the U.S.'s first painting family. A porthole painting of Niagara Falls by John Kensett, a member of the Hudson River school, is typical of the characteristic U.S. landscape style in which the vista is distant and changeless...
...20th century that gave birth to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. In 1905, the brilliant but eccentric Dr. William E. B. Du Bois,* one of the founders of the American Negro Academy, set up a narrowly based protest group of Negro elite known as the Niagara Movement (its first meeting was held near Niagara Falls in 1905). Declared Du Bois: "We claim for ourselves every right that belongs to a freeborn American-political, civil and social-and until we get these rights, we will never cease to protest and assail the ears of America with...