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Aunt Fanny's Cabin, 14 miles from Atlanta. Converted 160-year-old slave quarters jammed with antique spinning wheels and the like. The food is authentically old-fashioned Southern: gumbo soup with okra, crisp, deep-fried chicken, squash casserole and potatoes baked in resin...
Changing the Histories. As the multiracial reader begins to catch on, Negro groups are making an even greater push to eliminate distortions and omissions in history textbooks. Until recently, some popular texts depicted the plantation life of Negro slaves as a carefree round of play, song and dance but did not mention slave uprisings or the Underground Railroad to freedom. Researchers at Tufts University last month completed a study of 24 elementary school social studies books, found that many are "tinged with racism." A B'nai B'rith study of 24 high school social studies texts disclosed that...
...Much Glory? It takes longer to produce an entirely new, minority-balanced history, and the first, Benziger Brothers' Land of the Free, is kicking up a storm. It says that "in a few instances, an aroused slave killed a hated overseer or his master." Later, it reports that the present-day civil rights drive "drew savage resistance from local police, the White Citizens Council, the Ku Klux Klan, and mobs and assassins." When proposed for use in California schools, Land of the Free was denounced from the right as being "unAmerican" and too "internationalist," and from the left...
Even under local control, the selection and creation of books that portray minorities realistically are difficult, delicate matters. The happy primer whose Negro, white and Puerto Rican kids always laugh together can be as misleading as portrayals of the ever-grinning slave. Histories that try to make heroes out of such rightfully obscure Negroes as Sojourner Truth, who was merely one of many Negro campaigners against slavery shortly before the Civil War, lose their credibility. Despite these flaws, the long-overdue drive for balanced books has produced texts that are generally more accurate, realistic and engrossing than those that today...
...than a year ago was a snarling, swaggering demagogue whose hatred for the West made the Kremlin seem a neutralist. True enough, the Bung himself was not a Red ("Me bow down to Moscow? Anybody who ever came near Sukarno knows he has too much ego to be a slave to anybody"). Nor was Indonesia a member of the Communist bloc. Sukarno had his own ideas. His government, he constantly proclaimed, was based on the principle of NASAKOM-the happy union of Nationalism, Religion and Communism. The world was divided into NEKOLIM (neocolonialist imperialist powers) and NEFOS (the Newly Emerging...