Word: robinsons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard offers not a single course in the history of the former penal colony. True, there are no courses in the history of Alcatraz or of Riker's Island--although I wouldn't put it past the folks over in Robinson Hall. But then again, neither of these prison is a country unto itself, much less a continent...
...homeowner receives a cordial letter inviting him to apply for a charge account at J.W. Robinson's, a department-store chain. But his application for credit is rejected with a form letter alleging an "insufficient credit file." It should have read, "We are too lazy to check further...
...course, been progress. Americans of middle age can still remember when blacks had to move to the back of the bus as it crossed the border from Washington into the Virginia suburbs, when Marian Anderson was not allowed to sing at Washington's Constitution Hall, when Jackie Robinson had to promise not to retaliate if spiked and spat upon as the only black in major league baseball, and magazines periodically published photographs of some charred black body dangling on a rope from a branch of a tree. "In the 1940s," says Pettigrew, "Howard Beach occurred every night of the week...
...under the clanking title Dangerous Female, then as Satan Met a Lady. Studio biggies were narrowly headed off from calling Huston's version The Gent from Frisco. Before Humphrey Bogart got the starring role, it had been turned down by George Raft, Paul Muni, John Garfield and Edward G. Robinson. Edward C. Judson, a middle-aged businessman who married the 18-year-old Rita Cansino and guided her career as Rita Hayworth, kept an electric train for her to play with. Producer Mervyn LeRoy took the script of Quo Vadis? to the Vatican and had no trouble getting Pope Pius...
Baseball is, after all, a wholly American past time, with a wholly American past. The major leagues banned Black players until Jackie Robinson made it to the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947. And Boston schools were segregated until the 1970s. Racism is hardly lacking a past in this Land of the Free or in its favorite sport...