Word: savannahs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...dealing with it as a man. My mother had huge dreams and aspirations, and I put limits on her." At 21 he bears the weight of those aspirations. In less than two semesters, he will become the first in his family, and the first among his childhood friends in Savannah, Georgia, to graduate from college. "It's like I made it for all of us," he says. "That's what really pains me. I feel like I am the only one who had the opportunity to succeed." Active in student government and the N.A.A.C.P., Marshall wears a suit to class...
...Evelyn made enough money to rent an apartment, but when she lost her job, she and Marshall had to move to a public-housing project, where they shared an apartment with three other people. With money so scarce, Marshall often joined the long lines for free meals served in Savannah's public parks...
...take that money home to my mother, and that's how we'd eat that night." While other boys in the project turned to drugs and crime, Marshall pursued better jobs: delivering newspapers, washing dishes, cooking in a local restaurant. All the while he maintained a 3.8 average in Savannah's newly desegregated schools, eventually earning the scholarships that would take him to Emory. There were triumphs--and put-downs. One year Marshall's middle-school Quiz Bowl team won a contest focusing on drugs and alcohol. Says he: "After we won--and believe me, it was sort of amazing...
After Emory, Marshall wants to go home to the coastal slums of Savannah to try to improve the lives of the city's foundering African Americans. He has no delusions that he can wipe out the hunger and poverty that haunted his own youth; his attempt last summer to initiate a modest on-the-job-training program for inner-city youths died in the local Chamber of Commerce. He feels scorn for blacks who flee poverty only to forget those they left behind. "[Supreme Court Justice] Clarence Thomas talks about being from Pinpoint, a really rundown area of Savannah...
According to Davis, 50 boats will make the cut for the Olympic qualifier in Savannah, Georgia. Currently, Davis is ranked number 20 in the country in laser sailing, so he estimates his chances of raking high enough to move onto the trails as very good...