Word: southerns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...foundations of the shoe in dustry with his shoe-lasting machine, Norbert Rillieux greatly lowered the price of sugar with a new refining technique, and Garrett Morgan introduced a number of life-saving devices, not least of which was the traffic signal. George Washington Carver, of course, transformed Southern agriculture by discovering scores of new uses-from peanut butter to shaving cream-for the lowly peanut, soybean and sweet potato. In medicine, Dr. Daniel Hale Williams performed the first successful heart operation in 1893, while Dr. Charles Drew pioneered in new techniques to store blood plasma. Drew, ironically, bled...
...impressive four-day gathering of law yers and informed laymen last week at the University of Chicago's Center for Continuing Education. Held under the auspices of the American Bar Associa tion and the American Assembly,*the meeting, titled "Law and the Changing Society," brought together Southern practitioners, Midwestern judges, Western prosecutors, Wall Street senior partners, law professors and law students, and such outside observers as Author Martin Mayer (The Lawyers). Dean Manning's job was to start a self-critical fire under the conferees...
...good white Harvard people come down to help us poor Southern Negroes--you come down here and take over--and you expect us to love you. We don't owe you anything--we didn't ask you to come. We don't want your help...
...better or worse, most private Negro colleges seem likely to survive. They will continue to recruit most of their students from all-Negro Southern high schools and to send a substantial proportion of their graduates back to teach in those high schools, unable to break out of the cycle of mis-education and deprivation. (Riesman and Jencks...
...attend church regularly. The dean of men, a Baptist lay preacher, chided Radcliffe tutors for wearing "shorty-short skirts." Unless his eyes were deceiving him, he told us, Shaw girls' hems had risen since we came. If anything, his tone was apologetic: he seemed only to be expanding on Southern Baptist morality in an attempt to outshine the white middle-class variety...