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...staff editorial, countless well-meaning souls have to flood The Crimson with countless well-meaning letters to the editors, the Black Students Association and Hillel have to do their New Deal coalition trick again, and everyone--everyone--has to demonstrate and eat-in and be-in and sit...
...doesn't avoid romanticizing the past. The Bedford children are a bit too precocious in racial matters (15- year-old Nathaniel is bold enough to visit a black juke joint to listen to the music) and Lily too poetically noble. The town's first racial protest, moreover, is a sit-in that might have been a model for Gandhi. To protest the verdict in a case that Forrest has prosecuted, demonstrators gather slowly on the courthouse steps. They sit motionless, hushed, intense -- almost holy. The way it was? Or the way TV would prefer to remember...
Schaefer rates his latest swap at the top a clear success, with high marks for the first sit-in Governor, Shaila Aery. He concurred with her advice to stay away from the prison during last month's hostage crisis. The strategy worked: after 23 hours the guards were quietly freed...
This historical exhibit is typical of the aggressive multimedia style that will characterize the National Civil Rights Museum when it opens its doors in Memphis at the end of August. Here the sit-in movement will be commemorated by four mannequins seated at a Southern lunch counter as the wall behind them broadcasts footage of the taunts and attacks of an actual white segregationist mob. Will these exhibits be inspiring, living history or a parody of the Disney style? What is one to make of a museum whose board chairman, Tennessee Circuit Judge D'Army Bailey, says seriously that...
...protesters, which were subsequently used to identify them. Clark sent the letter precisely to avoid criticism of targeting those students whose pictures had been taken, Chmura says, adding that the dean took a strong stand on this issue because it was the first time that students conducting a sit-in did not let other pass through the area they occupied...