Word: savannah
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...rights gatherings and black school commencements, and has been published in several church hymnals. Taylor is also a member of a black syndicate that recently bought WLIB, making it New York's first black-owned station. With two other black men Taylor last year also bought WSOK in Savannah...
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...Superintendent graduated from Howard University in Washington D.C and earned Masters degrees in Education from Harvard and Columbia After working in the Savannah, Ga., school system he became a district superintendent on Chicago's West Side There he handled a district of 30,000 students--60 per cent black, 30 per cent Chicano, and 10 per cent white...
...Charles C. Jones, in the year 1854, was a prosperous plantation owner who lived with his intensely pious wife on the Georgia coast south of Savannah. Though aging and in fragile health, he was still noted as a Christian missionary to the Negro slaves. His son Charles was at Harvard, studying law and observing with righteous outrage the schemings of abolitionists and other anarchists. His other son, Joseph, was in Philadelphia studying medicine. Jones' brothers, sisters, cousins, and their swarming children, lived on other coastal plantations or in Marietta and Savannah. They were loyal, often loving. They bustled with...
Brinnin sets it all down, from the packet Savannah, which reached England under sail in 1819 using its steam engine mostly for public relations puffery, to (and down with) the Titanic and the Lusitania, and finally down to (but not with) the excellent but irrelevant Q.E. 2. The author proves again that the sea, at least when perceived from an armchair, is morally instructive. A repeated theme is that of pride brought low. The star of the American-owned Collins Line was the Arctic, an opulent sidewheeler launched in 1850. The ship was four years old when, steaming at full...