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...three events that will have the most impact on students, according to E4A board member Carolyn M. Fast '98 are a panel on domestic violence, a candlelight vigil for youth violence and a speech by Linda Stout of the Piedmont Peace Project, a multiracial organization...
Opposition to Disney's America, the "historical theme park" to be built about five miles from the Manassas National Battlefield in northern Virginia, is heating up. There are two categories of opponent: those who object to building any large enterprise in this bucolic area of the Virginia Piedmont and those who object to building this enterprise...
These upheavals were slow to arrive for the 350 colored people in Gates' hometown of Piedmont, nestled in a sleepy hollow between the Allegheny Mountains and the Potomac River Valley. At first folks simply watched the speeches and marches on television. When the effects of the civil rights movement finally did come to the town in the 1960s, the impact was ambiguous. Blacks welcomed expanded job opportunities and an end to humiliating reminders of where -- quite literally -- they stood: they were now allowed to sit down in white restaurants. But integration also meant that the nurturing institutions blacks had created...
...Small wonder, as Gates writes, that for many of his parents' generation, "integration was experienced as a loss . . . Who in his right mind would want to go to the mill picnic with the white folks when it meant shutting the colored one down?" The black men and women of Piedmont never thought of themselves as second-class people despite their second-class status. This society teemed with role models , of hard work, family stability and excellence...
...Disney's America in 1998 will be rough every inch of the way. Opposition comes from history buffs, environmentalists, old meddlers like Ralph Nader and a lot of residents who moved to the area to get away from things like the mouse. Not the least of these is the Piedmont Environmental Council, with various Mellons and DuPonts and Jackie Onassis on the membership rolls. It has ponied up $400,000, with a goal of $1 million, for what board chairman Charles Whitehouse calls "the fight of our lives...