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...students to learn. Testimony by black students underlined that charge. One black girl said that a policeman assigned to Southie held down a black student while a white student kicked him; another black testified that a white student came to school on crutches, claiming that they were his new "nigger beaters." A third charged that a white student picked up a chair and bashed a black over the head with it. Others said that Football Coach Perdigao told white players to "get" blacks trying out for the team; Perdigao denied it. Headmaster Reid, however, admitted that most of the charges...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Takeover in Boston | 12/22/1975 | See Source »

...Price family (if you remember, if you heard), who lived just blocks from Harvard Square. If you look around, you will find that you don't even have to leave Harvard to find racial violence. People should realize that Malcolm X was not joking when he said that "a nigger with a Ph.D from Harvard" is still called a nigger. People need to remember that we are only three or four generations out of slavery. People need to think back 10 and 20 years when black people were fighting for civil rights. A decade ago black students were not here...

Author: By Peter Hardie, | Title: Black Roots, White Poison | 11/25/1975 | See Source »

...addition, Holcomb says his super-visor, Frances Sweeney, called him a "damn nigger," which both Sweeney and Edward W. Powers, director of employee relations, deny...

Author: By Nicholas Lemann, | Title: Students Back Holcomb | 11/17/1975 | See Source »

...dominated world, never quite salvaging their own pride from degradation and suffering. A would-be playwright meanders drunkenly across the stage singing the old revival hymn "Wash Me Whiter Than Snow," and condemning the not-so-antiseptic world his family found when they tried to leave their "dirty, filthy nigger hovels across the tracks" and imitate "clean, white people...

Author: By Tom Blanton, | Title: Charlie Fever | 11/1/1975 | See Source »

...owners and operators of the yards are the real characters of the alley. They cover the entire spectrum of stereotypes. There's the beer-bellied, loud-spoken bigot--"See that guy, he just got off. Happy as shit. Killed some fuckin' nigger the other day, runned him right over. Hadda go ta court today. We got 'im clean though; fuckin' judge lives right down the street from me. I spent Saturday afternoon over his house, lookin' at his car. Guy runned right over that nigger, but the judge lives down the street from me. Jeesus, he's happy...

Author: By Jeff Leonard, | Title: A Cambridge Junkyard Junket | 9/26/1975 | See Source »

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