Word: pined
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Famous Men tells of a month spent in the pine cabin of an Alabama sharecropper during the summer of 1936. The book begins with 64 starkly beautiful photographs by Walker Evans, probing into the timeless peasant homes and sun-squinting faces of the Deep South, then ravaged by the Depression. Despite centuries of Anglo-Saxon inbreeding, the faces seem Latin: these same lean, starveling families could have emerged as easily from the caves of the Mezzogiorno or the baked hills of Mexico...
John D. York, 31, father of six, is a quiet Negro who quit school after the fourth grade to work as a laborer in Pine Bluff, Ark. "Good education is important," says he. "My kids are going to graduate from high school." Last spring he heard incredible news: Dollarway School would accept Negro first-graders this fall under a complex placement test. John D. marched Delores, 6, straight to Dollarway. "Nigger," jeered a white crowd surrounding the pair, "why do you want to register her in a white school?" John D. answered quietly: "Because it is a public school." Then...
...Pine Bluff (pop. 43,000) is a town that has its share of night riders and racism. John D. York was soon fired from the factory job that he had held for twelve years. And as school opening loomed last week, the entire Sunday service at his Galilee Baptist Church was built around Delores. Peering down at the child, the Negro minister intoned: "But they cried out the more, saying, Let him be crucified" (Matthew 27: 23). For three minutes the weeping congregation stood in silent prayer for her safety...
...bitterly segregationist Pine Bluff had learned a lesson from Little Rock, 45 miles away. And lean, responsible Lee Parham, president of the Dollarway school board, had pounded it home. "This is the only thing we can do," said he all over town. "Any violence over it will only hurt us in the future." Even the Citizens' Council agreed. As one Pine Bluffer put it: "It's awful hard to be a brave fighter when your opponent is a six-year-old girl...
...that Faubus stirred up in Little Rock three years ago, it is a big and scary decision for a school board to assign a Negro pupil to an all-white school. Last week, after a long spell of foot dragging, the Dollarway school board at the segregationist stronghold of Pine Bluff (pop. 40,000) got up its nerve, and in minimum compliance with a 1959 federal court order, hand-picked six-year-old Delores Jean York, daughter of a Negro mill hand, to enter the first grade of the all-white Dollarway public school. "First-graders," the board said hopefully...