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...same group of teenagers continually caused minor trouble throughout the day. Cars driven by Negroes were stoned, and shouts of "There's a damned nigger" and stronger epithets brought only occasional remonstrances from soldiers...

Author: By George H. Watson jr., SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Nine Negro Students Enter Little Rock's Central High | 9/26/1957 | See Source »

...elderly man with a cane told a group of reporters, "I've been living on this street for 35 years, and we never had any trouble with our colored people 'til you bunch of hypocritical nigger-lovers came down from New York...

Author: By George H. Watson jr., SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Nine Negro Students Enter Little Rock's Central High | 9/26/1957 | See Source »

...first morning they entered a white school, Greensboro Negroes were jeered; there were no hecklers the second day. The abusive "Damn Nigger" scrawlings on the asphalt driveway outside Reynolds High School in Winston-Salem were predictable. What was not predictable was the group of white students who scrubbed the drive clean. Said one: "This reflects on the name of the school, and we don't want that." Winston-Salem's only integrated Negro student entered, passed about 100 white students. Not one offered insult. A few smiled hello. Gwendolyn Yvonne Bailey, 15, walked into the school auditorium...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Advance in North Carolina | 9/16/1957 | See Source »

...construction worker named Joe Pritchett, the Exalted Cyclops of a local Ku Klux Klan. In the shack where the men had taken Aaron, police found stacks of White Citizens' Council literature-and a Bible. Why had they picked on Aaron? Said one: "We just wanted some nigger at random...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Klan in Alabama | 9/16/1957 | See Source »

Gable was a Yankee sea captain in the "nigger business." but has now repented of his slave-trading ways, and settled down as a Spanish-mossbacked Southern gentleman whose vassals are so happy that they all mass by ol' man river to sing hallelujah whenever Gable's steamboat comes round the bend. Yvonne is also cooing Gable's glory, though in more intimate circumstances. The trouble comes from Sidney Poitier, a pampered boss Negro whom Gable raised as a son; Sidney has turned bitter, would like nothing better than to plant kindly Massa Clark...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Aug. 5, 1957 | 8/5/1957 | See Source »

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