Word: niggerness
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...Last week, at the crest of the crisis, a white Birmingham waitress said to a customer from the North: "Honey, I sure hope the colored don't win. They've winned so much around the South. Why, you go down and get on a bus, and a nigger's just liable to sit right down beside you. Oh, that's hurt Birmingham somethin' awful." Neither Malcolm X nor the Birmingham waitress represents the majority of their races. But they do represent and symbolize two fixed positions: the Negro who looks with eagerness toward a militant...
...James Baldwin takes the microphone and cries: "Can you hear me? . . . Can you all hear me?" If he can make himself heard?in depths far beyond the capacity of the human ear ?everybody will know his name. And it won't be "Boy," and it won't be "Nigger...
...slogans Kerciu quotes are blunt. "A good nigger is a dead nigger," one reads. Beside it is printed: "WOULD YOU WANT YOUR SISTER TO MARRY ONE." Beneath this appears: "Impeach JFK," "Back Ross," and Yankee go home." Near the slogans are the names of the Segregationist Citizens Council, and the Patriotic Youth of America...
...deep Southern drawl, Atlanta's Police Chief Herbert T. Jenkins spoke in agreement. "If a police officer is so thinskinned that he is afraid of being called a 'nigger lover' because he is doing his duty, then he is in the wrong kind of business and should follow some other vocation . . . The time has come, it is here now, my friends, when an individual cannot be denied any public or official right or privilege because he is a Negro. The decision of the U.S. Supreme Court is the law of the land. We might disagree on many...
Several days later, when Williams was driving to the picket line, another car full of white men attempted to flip him off the road. Williams managed to work both cars into a ditch by the roadside. The crowd around the cars started screaming: "Kill the niggers! Pour gasoline on the niggers!" The driver of the other car approached with a baseball bat, saying "Nigger, what...