Word: resistance
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mississippi marchers took up the cry and carried it down the state's highways as they trudged toward the statehouse in Jackson last week. Harlem Congressman Adam Clayton Powell gave it voice when he told the graduating class of Washington's predominantly Negro Howard University to resist "the seductive blandishments of the white liberals" and seek "audacious power-black power." Members of two of the major civil rights groups, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and the Congress of Racial Equality, mouth it over and over. "Integration is irrelevant," cries SNCC Chairman Stokely Carmichael, 24. "Political and economic power...
...First Crusade was launched by Pope Urban II, a French aristocrat who had donned a monk's cassock. Urban's purposes were to help Byzantium resist the Turkish onslaught, heal the schism between the Churches of Rome and Constantinople, and harness the anarchic violence of the feudal soldiery in the service of a righteous cause-the reconquest of the Holy Sepulcher from the Moslem infidel...
...offices in Macon County and for a school-board post in predominantly Negro Greene County; otherwise, 22 Negro office-seekers were defeated, including Tuskegee Lawyer Fred Gray, 35, who had been favored to succeed in his bid for the state house of representatives. But although many whites continued to resist the inevitability of full-scale Negro political participation, there were heartening signs of reasonableness. Amid warnings of violence uttered by embittered Macon County whites, Sheriff Sadler took pains to call his defeat "fair and square" and to wish Amerson luck. "I think the white people knew," said Sadler, "that sooner...
...case. Why, for example, did Sylvia not escape from the Baniszewski house, where police found her lacerated body last October? From the testimony, she emerged as a simple, stoic girl who resigned herself to her early mistreatment, only to become too numbed and weakened by its later savagery to resist. At first, when Sylvia was abused, her sister testified, she would "just grit her teeth and shake her head." After young Hobbs, using a heated anchor bolt, branded Sylvia with the numeral 3, she said: "There's nothing I can do. It's on there...
...film's visual style, to which Gavras clearly gave a great deal of attention, sometimes drops to the level of mere flashiness. Gavras will not always resist ostentatious camera angles and tricks like shooting upside down or through the bottom of a beer stein. But often the style is a tour de force of the evocative and apt. When Graziani is interrogating suspects, the camera continually tracks and pans in short arcs, testing different angles as if conducting an investigation of its own. When the entire force starts work on the sleeping-car case, the camera tracks alongside the policemen...