Word: rosee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ordinariness of the Negro's experience says much about the Tocquevillian quality of frontier democracy. Negro cowhands rarely rose to the rank of trail foreman, and occasionally they were molested by rebels who had forgotten Appomattox, but most of them met with very little discrimination. The settlers of Wyoming voluntarily desegregated their first public school. Negroes won tall-tale reputations as cooks and bulldoggers, and as con-men and outlaws too. As Durham and Jones unfelicitously put it, "To be a good cowboy one needed first of all to be a good man, for a wild longhorn had no more...
...1780s, its foreign trade approached $140 million a year, with vast profits from sugar, coffee, cocoa, cotton and indigo flowing back home. Before long, 40,000 whites were lording it over 450,000 blacks. Then one night in August 1791, the island's painfully oppressed slaves rose in bloody revolt. Armed with pitchforks, torches and machetes and chanting voodoo dirges, they massacred 2,000 French planters and their families on the western third of the island...
...VOTING RIGHTS. In most Southern States it is becoming far easier for Negroes to register. Between 1956 and 1964, Negro registration in Virginia rose from 19% to 45.7% of all those of voting age; in Texas it was up from 37% to 57.7% ; in Tennessee, from 29% to 69.4% ; and in Florida, from 32% to 63.7%. About 2,000,000 Negroes are now registered to vote in the Old Confederacy. The Administration's voting bill, expected to pass amid diminished Southern opposition, will probably increase this number by another 1,000,000 to 1,500,000 by next year...
Cutbacks & Layoffs. As it often does, inflation gave the ailing economy a deceptive look of health. Last year the value of industrial production rose 16%, investment 29% and retail sales 22%, partly because consumers scrambled to convert their depreciating cash into durable goods. There has also been a burst of new building in Belgrade...
Beneath this veneer, however, Yugoslavia began to price itself out of world markets; its trade deficit rose to a record $424 million, draining off the country's scant reserves of foreign exchange. Many factories were forced to halt imports of raw materials, slow down production lines and lay off workers. Faced with creeping unemployment and mounting foreign debts, the government has turned westward for help on two fronts: it is exporting tens of thousands of workers to temporary jobs in labor-short Western Europe, and it is shopping for loans in the U.S. and elsewhere in the capitalist world...