Word: niggerized
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...bloodthirsty. But we kept our mouths shut, dodged any questions about our connections and kept out of trouble." Even so, Meyers, for example, found himself swept into mob action directed straight at himself. Says he: "I was in part of the crowd that was looking around for a 'nigger-lovin' TIME reporter.' I was told, 'We've got a knife for him.' I looked around with them, eased quickly away into a less aggressive part of the crowd. I also had the ignominious experience of being part of the mob chasing Chicago LIFE Correspondent...
...There's a Nigger." Monday morning in Little Rock came bright and crisp. At 6 a.m., on the day that Judge Davies had ordered integration to begin at Central High School, about 70 cops stood idly swinging billy clubs behind sawhorse barricades. These were the men that Mayor Woodrow Wilson Mann, former insurance agent turned well-meaning-but sometimes ineffectual-public servant, had said could preserve the peace in Little Rock. (Police Chief Marvin Potts apparently was not so sure: he judiciously stayed in his office.) But right at the beginning the Little Rock cops made their first...
...police uneasily tried to make friends. "Do you think I like this?" asked one. "I'm just trying to do my job." An old man turned his dry, grassfire eyes on Central High School, worked his bare gums in pleasure over the time "we burned a nigger in '27." A fat ex-schoolteacher named Arthur Bickle looked around at the crowd's hooligans, chortled his satisfaction: "They've separated the men from the boys...
...Negro. Another Negro (a onetime U.S. marine) decided not to run, ambled with terrifying dignity through a gauntlet of blows, kicks and curses. A cop stood on a car bumper to get a better view. Other cops moved toward the fighting. Faubus Henchman James Karam cried angrily, "The nigger started it!" A huge man came up behind Karam and said: "Get five or six boys, and get them over there where the nigger kids came in last time." State Athletic Commissioner Karam led five bullyboys to the other end of the school...
...that the book is "racially offensive" shows a reading in which the racial sensitvity was sharper than the wits. For if there are some "passages derogatory to Negroes" (largely because the vernacular used has since changed in shade of meaning) the total drama shows the dignity and worth of "nigger Jim." Indeed, Huck's own moral growth is a function of his affection and respect for Jim. Other whites show badly in comparison as Jim teaches Huck not mere tolerance, but love. That the process is slow and painful and that it takes place in a still-enslaved South provide...