Word: slaving
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Negroes can no longer be crumb beggars at the white man's table," ex-heavyweight champion Muhammed Ali told an overflow M.I.T. audience yesterday. "The so-called American Negro has reached the point where he should no longer look to his slave master for economic assistance or social identity...
...Slave v. Grave. Throughout his oratory ran a dark premonition that he would be slain. And with reason. Back in Montgomery, a twelve-stick dynamite bomb had been thrown on his porch, but failed to explode. In Harlem in 1958, a deranged Negro woman stabbed him dangerously near the heart. He had been pummeled and punished by white bullies in many parts of the South. He was hit in the head by a rock thrown in Chicago. When he won the Nobel Prize, Coretta King mused: "For the past ten years, we have lived with the threat of death always...
...Slave or Free? One of the founders of General Motors and until recently one of its biggest stockholders (he has given away all but 92,000 shares), Mott funnels his millions through the Mott Foundation (TIME, June 28, 1963), which considers itself the nation's fourth largest foundation (assets fluctuate with market values, but the Ford, Rockefeller and Duke philanthropies are undoubtedly larger). It contributes directly to the school board ($3,477,141 this year)-but only after Mott and his aides study and approve of the board's plans for spending the money...
...will contribute to "the total education" of the city. In adult courses, that means lessons in everything from breast feeding to small-boat handling, from arithmetic to advanced cake decoration. A Sunday "coffeehouse" lecture series takes up such questions as "Why does love escape us?" and "Am I a slave to circumstance or free?" There are discussions of race relations (Flint is 22% Negro) and such religious questions as "Is God dead...
...betterment of mankind, but The Firm opposes him. His last attempt to exercise free will has been thwarted, and now he learns that his idea of freedom was illusory: he needed The Firm as much as it needed him. Charlock's most important discovery is that the slave is born with his chains. He retires to perfect Abel as an engine of revenge. There is a Hitchcock ending that is best left undisclosed...