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Another ghetto school that so far seems to have escaped real strife is Detroit's St. Martin de Porres High School.* The reason may be that its tough-talking Negro principal, Joseph Dulin, 33, believes in confronting students before they confront him. "Damn you, nigger," he exploded at a student recently. "You stole them gloves. Now I'm gonna give you ten minutes to get them back to me." Eight minutes passed. Then the petrified freshman was back, sheepishly handing over the gloves. "These people are your family, don't you know that?" Dulin lectured...
...assistance is, it is still the black officials themselves who must solve the problems of establishing their authority in a largely hostile white society. White intransigence to political integration takes many forms, ranging from defiance to outright intimidation. Black justices and constables are told by white offenders that "no nigger is going to tell us what to do." Moses Riddick, a member of the Board of Supervisors in Suffolk, Va., had a cross burned on his lawn after winning a primary. James Jolliff, a black constable in Wilkinson County, Miss., was arrested on charges of impeding and intimidating officers...
...Gene Frankel, works well as an ensemble to thread an elegiac mood through the range of comedy, rage, reminiscence and introspection. André Womble expertly manages a wide variety of black male parts, from an African nationalist to a run away slave; John Beal does equally well as the nigger-hating home owner of Raisin in the Sun and, in a scene from an un finished play, as a survivor of nuclear holocaust trying to teach some savage children what civilized man meant by beauty and music...
...leading a student strike against "an indifferent, broken-down faculty" and "Victorian social standards." Thus Cheek is an appropriate president for the campus where the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee got its start in 1960. Says Cheek: "I'm not telling my students to be sweet little nigger boys and girls so they can get a good...
...expeditions Turner planned were successful. This gave the blacks a confidence in his intelligence and judgment. His legitimacy as a leader was clearly not dependent on his attachment to the "master" and his own status as a "house nigger." Add to this the fact that the blacks were overawed by his ability and desire to read and we have a somewhat more logical leadership figure than is presented in Mr. Styron's Turner...