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...whirring, horse-drawn reaper lurched through a field of grain on a Virginia farm one day in 1831. Beside it marched two men, one white, one black. The white man was Cyrus McCormick, inventor of the first practical reaper. The Negro was his slave Jo Anderson, whose devoted work had helped perfect the machine. In the 123 years since, Inventor McCormick's International Harvester Co. has not forgotten the way its founder and Jo Anderson worked together. This week, in Manhattan, the National Urban League honored International Harvester with its "Industrial Statesmanship" Award for the company's steady...
Margaret began her personnel career in a rather ironic way, by playing the part of a slave girl in Cecil B. DeMille's epic The Ten Commandments. She was going to Hollywood High School at the time. Says she: "Everybody was a part of the movie colony in those days. I heard that the studio was paying $5 a day for extras, so I applied." She soon learned that student extras were in great demand at other studios and particularly for the rash of Mack Sennett and Hal Roach two-reel comedies that were being turned out. Result: Margaret...
...Beloyannis the Moschous and 3,000 other Greek hostages worked at slave labor and studied under the constant supervision of Greek Communist secret police. The children were sent to "vocational school" to learn the principles of "good citizenship." "They had only one objective: to change our opinions and beliefs," said Christopher Moschou. "First, they would be sweet. Then they would become hard and they would threaten. They told us that jail and torture awaited us when we got back to Greece." It was their fellow Greeks who did most of the threatening. "The Hungarians," said another captive, "left us pretty...
...indeed, as the whole university tradition. The concept of academic tenure is a delicate one that has grown up partly because the teacher has historically been a favorite target for attack. It is simply another way of saying that a man's mind cannot exist half slave and half free, that if a scholar is to operate effectively on the frontiers of his field, he must also be accorded the rights of any other citizen to differ and dissent outside that field. Harvard has refused to fire four teachers who invoked the Fifth Amendment because they...
...Song. Throughout U.S. history, Negroes have fought-and died -in the nation's wars (and Crispus Attucks, a runaway slave, was the first to fall in the Boston Massacre of 1770, prelude to the American Revolution). Yet always the verdict was the same: in combat, Negro units were "unreliable"-a euphemism for an uglier word. Even in the Korean war-nearly three years after President Truman's 1948 order for armed-forces equality-the classic story was of Negroes who fled from battle, then huddled around a campfire singing The Bug Out Boogie, the "official song...