Word: nigger
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...young (black) man. I'm a nigger. Nobody around here calls me that. If they did, I would have something. I could feel offended and get mad. Last night I was at dinner. A couple of nice guys got up and left the table, talking about the swell party "about 8." I sat there finishing my coffee. I'm a nigger...
...experience with "life" has made me real sensitive to him. If I don't trust him, personally, like a buddy any offense strikes me as a racial slight. When he pushes me aside to get a seat on the train, I think he pushes me because I'm a nigger. I wish he'd ask himself, then, how I must feel, and care about his own reply, and quit pushing, in any way, forever. But a man never thinks about those important things; until later, when he's too far away from the incident to beg my pardon and mean...
...students armed with firecrackers and cherry bombs continued to harass Meredith and the U.S. marshals who guard him. the teachers got bolder. Incensed at the constant uproar, sick at heart of students yelling "nigger bastard," faculty wives started a telephone chain, got 68 husbands to patrol the campus at night to cool hotheads. The chemistry department threatened to quit in a body. Teachers were tempted to give rugged daily tests to pacify rebels, and to flunk prime offenders, but both ideas were rejected on the ground that moral, not academic, pressure is the right approach. Now the faculty committee...
...Smile, Nigger!" Even if there had been no students jeering him and no U.S. marshals guarding him, Meredith would have been a strange figure on that campus. At 29. he was visibly older than his fellow students. His somber suit, neatly knotted tie and shined shoes contrasted with the campus' standard male garb of white shirt, khaki trousers and scuffed loafers. And above all other differences, he was a Negro, the only one in the entire state of Mississippi who had broken through the public education system's segregation barrier...
...dormitory. "Hey. taxi!" a student yelled. "I wish I had a taxi to take me around campus.'' The hissing intensified, and Meredith quickened his pace. As he reached the car and faced a battery of waiting news photographers, the students broke into loud jeers. "Smile, nigger, smile!" they called. The marshals hustled him into the back seat and the car drove away, followed by two U.S. Army weapons carriers loaded with steel-helmeted soldiers grasping rifles with bayonets attached...