Word: ralph
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Gershwin! Dig all the rock 'n' roll beat groups! Pick up on all the bestselling novels! Because I am one of them millions of "can-not-be/shall-not-be/integrated or (Uncle Ralph Bunche) assimilated," I figure it's best to talk, walk, sing and swing like a true nigger! It is like my music, jazz. It's personal, and the sounds often change from nigger to Negro and from colored to Afro. That's our sound. It's our contribution to the world, it's pure Afro-American. It's beautiful. 'Taint...
Then, as it often did during the six weeks of summer school, the discussion somehow turned to the summer of 1963 and the Charleston Movement. Many of my students went to jail that summer, and all of them remember it with pride and excitement. As Ralph Dawson said in his essay the next day, "I showed them that summer that I wasn't the boy in the picture...
...academic achievements didn't begin to exhaust the satisfactions of the summer. The most striking changes were changes in attitude; the image many students had of themselves and their capabilities and goals was permanently altered. Ralph Freeman, one of seven children of illiterate parents, will probably attend Yale. Reginald Dawson has decided to top off his entry into a previously white school by going out for the football team (a recent letter from him says they use him very effectively as a decoy.) Two others, bitter and undirected since going to jail in 1963, say that discussing Baldwin, Richard Wright...
...RALPH BIGELOW...
Nicks & Boasts. Niederhoffer's manners last week were practically impeccable-and so was his game. In the semifinals, he beat Sam Howe's brother, Ralph, with a dazzling display of drop shots, "nicks" (shots which hit right at the floor line, roll out with no bounce) and "boasts" which carom sharply from a side wall to the front wall, then drop dead off the other side...