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...catch herself from losing the artist's connection with the past, Angelou begins her latest work with a slave spiritual--a calling to an emotional memory--that sings, "The ole ark's a-moverin', a-moverin', a-moverin', the ole ark's a-moverin' along." The ole ark is Black people, now moving to realize the goals of the Civil Rights Movement and Malcolm X. The heroine is again Maya Angelou, no longer a little girl but now a single mother trying to raise her only son. The book tries to illustrate how closely allied the political lives of Angelou...
...large." No longer content with surplus materiel from the arsenals of the superpowers, smaller nations are demanding state-of-the-art equipment in everything from fighters to frigates. Even as they deplore the buildup and fear its consequences, the major arms sellers echo the old dirge of 19th century slave traders: "If we don't sell, someone else will." The only effective restraint on the seller, it seems, is the difficulty in beating competitors to the most lucrative contracts...
They have made over the blues into the lassies. Tunes like Start Me Up, Slave, Little T & A and Black Limousine are full of lassitude, of a kind of weary passivity and sated cynicism...
...grandson of a Mississippi slave, Wilkins was born Aug. 30, 1901, in St. Louis. His parents were both college graduates, his father an ordained minister who could find work only as a foreman in a brick kiln. When Roy Wilkins was four, his mother died of tuberculosis and he was sent to live with relatives in St. Paul. He grew up in a poor but integrated, predominantly Scandinavian neighborhood, working his way through the University of Minnesota as a porter, dining-car waiter and stockyard worker...
...Production, was one of the most powerful men in Nazi Germany; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in London. Starting in 1934, Speer built Nazi Party headquarters in Munich and the chancellery in Berlin and orchestrated Hitler's spectacular mass rallies at the stadium in Nuremberg. For his use of slave labor as head of war production from 1942 to 1945, he was sentenced in 1946 to 20 years in prison at the Nuremberg war-crimes trials...