Word: oxfords
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...introduction to the town was in a federal court-room in Oxford, Mississippi. There, on a sticky August day, three lawyers for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund had brought county officials to trial in a school desegregation case. First on the witness stand was Mrs. Lee Dora Collins, mother of nine and obviously pregnant, in her early thirties, she was well-built and looked strong. She unfolded her story without hesitation...
SECOND witness for the prosecution in the Oxford courtroom on the second floor of the post-office overlooking a typical town square with the inevitable white courthouse and statute of a Civil War hero was Presley Franklin, the first Negro to integrate the eleventh grade at Marks' white high school. Slim and small for his age, he spoke quietly describing his school year. "They would call me 'walkin' talkin' tootsie-roll,' 'burrhead', and other things like that. They used to throw crayons and chalk at me during class discussion and say 'we're going to kill that nigger'. Miss Martin...
Cowen and Beard combined to capture Navy's only doubles win. They edged Levin and Terry Oxford at the number one position...
...Gunther Schuller is such a man. A composer, conductor, and president of Boston's New England Conservatory of Music, he is also a seasoned jazz composer, critic, lecturer and performer (French horn). Now he has put his combined backgrounds to work brilliantly in a new book, Early Jazz (Oxford; $9.75). The first of a projected two-volume musical history, the book is nothing less than the definitive guide to jazz for the classical-music...
Rocky Jarvis and Terry Oxford have been unbeatable so far. Neither junior has dropped a singles match this season...