Word: nigger
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Last week, at the crest of the crisis, a white Birmingham waitress said to a customer from the North: "Honey, I sure hope the colored don't win. They've winned so much around the South. Why, you go down and get on a bus, and a nigger's just liable to sit right down beside you. Oh, that's hurt Birmingham somethin' awful." Neither Malcolm X nor the Birmingham waitress represents the majority of their races. But they do represent and symbolize two fixed positions: the Negro who looks with eagerness toward a militant...
...slogans Kerciu quotes are blunt. "A good nigger is a dead nigger," one reads. Beside it is printed: "WOULD YOU WANT YOUR SISTER TO MARRY ONE." Beneath this appears: "Impeach JFK," "Back Ross," and Yankee go home." Near the slogans are the names of the Segregationist Citizens Council, and the Patriotic Youth of America...
...deep Southern drawl, Atlanta's Police Chief Herbert T. Jenkins spoke in agreement. "If a police officer is so thinskinned that he is afraid of being called a 'nigger lover' because he is doing his duty, then he is in the wrong kind of business and should follow some other vocation . . . The time has come, it is here now, my friends, when an individual cannot be denied any public or official right or privilege because he is a Negro. The decision of the U.S. Supreme Court is the law of the land. We might disagree on many...
Several days later, when Williams was driving to the picket line, another car full of white men attempted to flip him off the road. Williams managed to work both cars into a ditch by the roadside. The crowd around the cars started screaming: "Kill the niggers! Pour gasoline on the niggers!" The driver of the other car approached with a baseball bat, saying "Nigger, what...
...subject that Miss Hellman treats with particular humor and good sense is the uneasy relationship between post-ghetto Jews and Negroes. The play opens with Berney singin' on his guitar "De life of a nigger ain't much good..." a point to which the Halpern maid, who overhears him, speaks with some feeling. In a later scene, Berney urges social action on a Negro who mugs him, more or less to shut him up. As these two episodes perhaps suggest, there is considerable overlap in the construction. Since a scene or two might be cut in the process of tightening...