Word: rent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...13th Amendment, which, according to an earlier court decision, had enabled the legislature to abolish "all badges and incidents of slavery." In addition, said Stewart, Congress had not indicated any distinction between private and public acts of discrimination. "So long as a Negro citizen who wants to buy or rent a home can be turned away simply because he is not white, he cannot be said to enjoy 'the same right as is enjoyed by white citizens...
...open-housing law just passed by Congress. Though it does not start to go into effect until next year, it provides sanctions against those who discriminate in the sale of housing -except for individuals who sell their own property without the aid of a real estate agent, or who rent rooms in a boarding house that they own and live in. That is the legislative will of 1968, said Harlan, and the court should not go beyond it. The majority countered the argument by observing that Congress had carefully noted that it was not superseding any earlier civil rights...
...difference between Tin Pan Alley and Soul is not hard to define. A conventional tunesmith might write: "You're still near, my darling, though we're apart/ I'll hold you always in my heart." The soul singer might put it: "Baby, since you split the scene the rent's come due/ Without you or your money it's hard, yeah, hard to be true...
...decades of the 20th century, the blues gathered a more elaborate accompaniment around itself (sometimes a jazz group) and moved into theaters, dance halls and recording studios. This was the era of Bessie Smith's classic records. By the 1930s, a new style was forged around tenements, speakeasies and rent parties?a harsher, more nervous brand of blues that reflected the stress and tempo of urban living. This style mingled with the blaring jazz and blues that swept out of the Southwest during the swing era (Andy Kirk, Count Basic), and so the stage was set for the emergence, after...
...pimps, whores, racketeers, church members, and children-bound together by the nature of our oppression. If so, within these limits we sometimes achieved with each other a freedom that was close to love. I remember, anyway, church suppers and outings, and, later, after I left the church, rent and waistline parties where rage and sorrow sat in the darkness and did not stir, and we ate and drank and talked and laughed and danced and forgot all about...