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...boss was an old-style Carolina gentleman, revamped. He had gotten tired of his retirement from the realty business, learned to say "Negro" instead of "nigra," at least to black people, and gone to work for the government. His face was red and full, topped by short white hair. His first name was Roscoe, but he very much preferred "R.C." so of course we called him "Arsey." He was continually sucking the life out of a stubby Raleigh--it seemed like he smoked a carton...

Author: By Phil Patton, | Title: Some Houses Down There | 2/27/1974 | See Source »

...state trooper who, as former Governor George Wallace's state public-safety director from 1963 to 1965, led troopers armed with tear gas and electric cattle prods in bloody attacks on civil rights demonstrators in Birmingham and Selma; of a ruptured aorta; in Birmingham. "I am not a Nigra-hater," Lingo once said. "I've played with 'em, I've eaten with 'em and I've worked with 'em, but I still believe in segregation. You can say that some of my best friends are Nigras...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Aug. 29, 1969 | 8/29/1969 | See Source »

THIRTEEN YEARS ago plaintiffs brought suit in Federal District Court to integrate the Louisiana public schools. The main argument of the defense attorneys and the superintendent of public instruction was that "white teachers could not understand the Nigra mind" and therefore would not be able to teach them effectively in integrated classrooms. The defense quoted heavily from the theories of white intellectual supremacy as expounded by Henry Garrett and Virginia Shuie...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Black IQs A Professor Replies . . . | 3/13/1969 | See Source »

Their main argument was that "white teachers could not understand the Nigra mind" and that the Nigra children should be admitted to the white schools on the basis of standardized tests. Those who failed to make a certain score would be assigned to all black remedial schools where "teachers who understood them could work with them." The defense in this case quoted heavily from the theories of white intellectual supremacy as expounded by Arthur Jensen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Black IQs A Professor Replies . . . | 3/13/1969 | See Source »

Then into town comes a strange breed of Nigra (Sidney Poitier). He's just passing through, but at home in Philadelphia he is a "top homicide expert" on the police force. Steiger sees him as a perfect scapegoat, but the widow, recognizing the incompetence of Steiger's bumbling staff, demands that Poitier be put on the case. To Poitier this is an ironic challenge. He is uppity enough to welcome the chance to put on airs with impunity, and he proceeds to demolish Steiger's plan of attack with a gusto that borders on the sadistic. Thus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Kind of Love | 8/11/1967 | See Source »

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