Word: niggerness
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Nowhere have I read or heard about moderates among the faculty and students of the university in today's crisis. Were they all asking "When will the nigger come?" Or is the climate in Mississippi presently such that a moderate dare not let his views be known...
...three men left the building and walked back to the car, the waiting crowd erupted in gleeful yells. "Goddam dirty nigger bastard," a teen-age boy shouted, "get out of here and stay...
...blue and maroon freshman beanies, the scene was of the sort to make alumni hearts swell with bittersweet memories of days long gone. But beneath all the laughter, beneath all the seeming exuberance, was an ugly, constantly recurring question. "When," the kids asked one another, "will the nigger come...
...gathered-2,000 of them-on the colonnaded campus at Oxford, Miss. Grey-uniformed state patrolmen were there; so were newsmen and television crews. Governor Ross Barnett, fresh from a long meeting with the state college board, from which he had extracted the authority to deal personally with "the nigger," flew into Oxford, drove to the campus, and there took over as special registrar of the university. Barnett had promised the people of Mississippi-despite telephone calls from U.S. Attorney General Robert Kennedy, who had warned him of the legal consequences -that he would go to jail before he would...
...anger. A few tried to lower the U.S. flag and raise instead the banner of the old Confederacy; student leaders stopped them. As Meredith got out of his car, students booed and chanted: "Two, four, six, eight -we don't want to integrate!" A few yelled: "Go home, nigger!" Meredith looked around, smiled thinly, furrowed his brow and followed his escorts into the Center for Continuation Studies. There, in a private session with Ross Barnett and his aides and the marshals, Meredith presented the federal court orders and his credentials...