Word: songbook
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that modern collegiate custom, the panty raid. Net result: seven students suspended. ¶ In a sudden burst of energy, the Georgia Board of Education carried the white man's burden into a new field: censorship. In quick succession, the board 1) objected to a new Stephen Foster songbook because the lines "Oh. darkies, how my heart grows weary" had been changed to "Oh, brothers . . ."; 2) took under advisement the long-used text, America, Land of Freedom, because it devotes "only several little paragraphs" to the South's role in the Revolutionary War; and 3) refused immediate approval...