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Word: raps (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...guide was a tall, thin black man with an African costume named Sweet Willy. Sweet Willy can rap pretty good, and when a woman inside one of the shelters complained "This isn't a zoo," when photographers tried to take pictures of her, Sweet Willy said to her, "How we gonna show Johnson?" That worked...

Author: By James K. Glassman, | Title: Resurrection City U.S.A. | 5/17/1968 | See Source »

With such an accessible stage, radical Negro leaders moved briskly into the act. Charles 37X Kenyatta, head of Harlem's Mau Mau sect, led a group of his followers on a sympathy march across the campus. Black Power Apostles Stokely Carmichael and H. Rap Brown showed up to counsel the Negro students occupying Hamilton Hall. Some 200 Negro youngsters, many of them no older than 13, snaked onto the campus chanting "Black Power...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Students: Siege on Morningside Heights | 5/3/1968 | See Source »

...YORK, April 26--An estimated 300 Columbia University students, entrenched for the fourth day in five classroom and administration buildings, won support today from the neighboring Harlem community and from black militants H. Rap Brown and Stokely Carmichael...

Author: By James K. Glassman, (SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON) | Title: Columbia Demonstration Enters 4th Day | 4/27/1968 | See Source »

...Washington streets waving a pistol and urging blacks to arm. "A lot of people who were afraid to pick up guns will now pick up guns," he said later. "They clearly made a mistake when they killed Dr. King. It would have been far better if they killed Rap Brown or myself. Then they could have said that 'they lived by the sword and they died by the sword...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: RAMPAGE & RESTRAINT | 4/19/1968 | See Source »

...fiction-in books, films and television-all the way from the westerns through the gangster stories to the more recent outpouring of sadomasochism that seems to demand a new legal definition of obscenity as cruelty. When new events put exclamation points behind the impression, and Negro Militant H. Rap Brown says that "violence is as American as cherry pie," heads nod in agreement around the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: VIOLENCE & HISTORY | 4/19/1968 | See Source »

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