Word: nigger
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...heard a psychology lecture on human behavior. The subject was timely, for that morning she and Hamilton Holmes, 19, breached a sorry human-behavior barrier: the 175-year-old tradition of segregation at the campus in Athens. They ignored slurs from some white students ("Make way for the nigger"), reveled in a countering welcome from others ("She has such poise"). But that night, even as Georgia was being toasted across the nation for a display of tolerance and maturity, Students Hunter and Holmes learned that human behavior can be blind and lawless...
...still doing their old cosmic crisscross, and there ain't a thing we can do about it. It's pretty quiet now. Folk hereabouts get to bed early, those that can still walk. Down behind the morgue a few of the young people are roastin' a nigger over an open fire, but I guess every town has its night-owls, and afore long they'll be tucked up asleep like anybody else. Nothin' stirring down at the big old plantation house-you can't even hear the hummin' of that electrified barbed-wire...
...growing tension, New Orleans' police reinforced their cordon around the school. That only seemed to make the mob angrier. Reporters and photographers were attacked. The Rev. Jerome Drolet, a Catholic priest who accompanied the Foremans to school one morning, was met with cries of "bastard," "Communist" and "nigger lover." Restlessly, the mob moved to the Foremans' frame cottage, stoned the family's black-and-white dog. "Look," cried one woman, "even their dog's integrated." When police shooed the women away, they went to a hospitable neighbor's lawn, where self-styled "cheerleaders" chanted their...
...laborer in Pine Bluff, Ark. "Good education is important," says he. "My kids are going to graduate from high school." Last spring he heard incredible news: Dollarway School would accept Negro first-graders this fall under a complex placement test. John D. marched Delores, 6, straight to Dollarway. "Nigger," jeered a white crowd surrounding the pair, "why do you want to register her in a white school?" John D. answered quietly: "Because it is a public school." Then he took his child's hand and went about his business. Delores became the first-and only-Negro student accepted...
When he was 40, Music Critic Carl Van Vechten was disposed to quit writing critical essays because at that age, he believed, his "intellectual arteries" had hardened. The affliction apparently did him no harm: after that he wrote seven novels about what made the Twenties roar (The Tattooed Countess, Nigger Heaven), twelve other books about music and himself, a definitive tome on cats (The Tiger in the House)-and all manner of critical essays, including some on photography, a durable interest in which versatile Van Vechten still excels. Still a chronic essayist, Van Vechten turned 80 last week...