Word: skins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...congressional delegation, he put away a generous helping of grits and sausage, delivered a tough, plain-talking speech for civil rights: "Because the Constitution requires it, because justice demands it, we must protect the constitutional rights of all our citizens, regardless of race, religion or the color of their skin." Surprisingly, the audience applauded; some even cheered. Cried Lyndon: "I love the people of Georgia." Hundreds of thousands lined the streets to see the President's motorcade pass by, and he stopped no fewer than eight times to talk to them through a brand-new bullhorn. Later...
Hawkes Second Skin...
...think the Negro race ought to stay pure and the white race stay pure." As a Negro, I find it necessary to say that it is unlikely that there are any pure Negroes in the entire U.S.-that is why the Negro race has such a variety of skin tones. PHYLLIS L. Cox Richmond...
Beauty Bounty. Nor is the change only skin-or even bikini-deep. Says Chief Editor F. W. Koebner of Elegante Welt, Germany's leading fashion and society magazine: "The breakup and reorganization of German society has given the individual German girl the material and psychological means to become beautiful." She has rejected her parents' ideals and escaped the self-sufficient autocracy that used to be family life in Germany. By contrast with her insular parents, she is worldly, well-traveled, avid for the fads and fashions of other nations. She has a new sense of identity and self...
Black Like Me is a deep-dyed message fHm about a white man who passes for black. In it, James Whitmore conscientiously re-enacts the real life odyssey of John Howard Griffin, a Texas journalist who darkened his skin through the use of drugs, sun-lamp treatments and vegetable coloring, traveled through the South for a month or so, then summed up his experiences in a 1960 book that posed the question: "How else except by becoming a Negro could a white man hope to learn the truth...