Word: niggers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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These misadventures, handled with fine flair and gusto by Author Ellison, end the boy's college career. Kicking him out for irresponsible conduct, the president admits that, to get where he is, he himself had "to act the nigger." He hands out some advice for the road: "You let the white folk worry about pride and dignity -you learn where you are and get yourself power, influence...
...friends, Arnall was a shining liberal, to his Georgia foes an out & out "nigger lover." He eliminated chains and shackles from Georgia's notorious prisons, had the poll tax repealed, fought for revocation of the Ku Klux Klan's state charter. Barred by law from succeeding himself in office, Arnall in 1946 saw Gene Talmadge sweep back to power, but die before he could take office. (Gene's son Herman was elected governor...
Some parents protested hotly against the Morrow campaign, and some even called him up to tell him what a "Communist," "nigger-lover," or "Fascist" they thought he was. None of that bothered Morrow much. What did bother him was what Tucson's parents would say when they found out what he had done with the 19 Negro teachers from the city's Negro schools...
...know a nigger is moving into the neighborhood?" an Oak Park druggist whispered to his customers several months ago. The newcomer to the neighborhood around Chicago and East Avenues was indeed a Negro. He was also one of the nation's ablest chemists. Percy Levon Julian A.M., Ph.D. (Harvard and the University of Vienna), the only Negro in his class at DePauw University, where he was valedictorian (and a classmate of David Lilienthal), is the highly paid chief of soyabean research for Chicago's Glidden Co. In that job and earlier, Percy Julian, the grandson of an Alabama...
...seaside resorts, South Carolina's famed Myrtle Beach is much like any other Southern coastal town. Negro tobacco hands, as well as tourists, invade it for entertainment and for years many of them have headed for Charlie Fitzgerald's place in a section locally known as "Nigger Hill." A man could get almost anything he wanted at Charlie's-whisky, a woman, food, or a fight...