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...moderate in Natchez," Negro Comedian Dick Gregory once said, "is a white man who hangs a nigger from a low tree." Though Gregory is a master of bitter hyperbole, there was no exaggeration in his description as far as one Wharlest Jackson, 36, was concerned last week. Jackson had the sort of background designed to infuriate Natchez-style moderates, not to mention extremists. He had been treasurer of the Natchez branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. He had actively participated in a boycott of white stores that followed the bombing of another Natchez N.A.A.C.P. official...
...sportswriters. He did not knock Terrell out-or even down. Instead Cassius carefully closed Ernie's left eye, opened a bloody gash over his right eye that later required seven stitches, and generally made mincemeat of his man. Then, with Terrell dazed and helpless, Clay screamed, "Uncle Tom nigger!" "What's my name?" he demanded again and again. "That's it, baby!" shouted Clay's Muslim handlers. "Make him say your name!" Terrell refused, and took his licking. Afterward, Clay announced that he had really enjoyed beating up Ernie "because he said bad things about...
Misery hates company, or so it seems for most of the play. Full of inbred Southern prejudices, the girl calls the man a "nigger" and won't sit at the kitchen table with him. Full of the critical disdain of the educated, the man sarcastically mocks the girl's looks, grammar, vocabulary and dim wits. Gradually, their plight draws them together, and Playwright Westheimer achieves moments of mirth, poignance, compassion, and interracial rapport...
...emerged from school. They trampled Richard Sigh, 12, in the dust, breaking a leg. Another twelve-year-old ran a block-long gauntlet of flailing whites, emerged with bleeding face and torn clothes. Still other Negro youngsters were thrown to the ground and kicked. "That'll teach you, nigger!" grunted one assailant. "Don't come back tomorrow." For good measure, the rowdies pummeled and kicked four white out-of-town newsmen. A pickup truck equipped with a two-way radio helped the mob head off fleeing children. Grenada policemen stood by and grinned. "These niggers," explained Constable Grady...
...TIME'S statement that whites drove past Gordon Wright's house in Grosse Pointe screaming "Nigger, get out!" [Aug. 19] is true. However, by failing to mention the flood of friendly telephone calls, visits, notes and gifts (from curtains to lemonade) that the Wrights received from many of their new neighbors, and by ignoring the completely peaceful arrival of another Negro family, the Glenn Browns, you left your readers with the impression that all Grosse Pointe is not only rich, exclusive, but nasty...