Word: southerns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Spitting Fire. Elsewhere in Harlem, a Mau Mau guerrilla, toting a machete, bellowed: "We'll cut off whitey's head!" In Detroit, plans were announced for a convention to map out a separate black nation in five Southern states...
Boost for Mumbo. Operation Breadbasket grew from successful Negro boycotts in Philadelphia in the early 1960s and spread to Atlanta, where King's men have claimed 5,000 new jobs for Negroes in the past six years. Currently, Jackson has plans to deploy his pickets in several Southern cities. "Our tactics," he insists, "are not ones of terror. Our biggest concern is to develop a relationship so that the company has a respect for the consumer and the consumer will have respect for the company. As buying power among Negroes increases, they will be able to spend more money...
...word. "Contact can hurt," concludes Narrator Ralph Bellamy, "but not as much as non-contact." ∙BOOKS. A paperback with an unlikely title, The Cotton Patch Version of Paul's Epistles, has just been published by Association Press, a Y.M.C.A. affiliate. Written by Clarence L. Jordan, a Southern Baptist minister who helped found Koinonia Farm, an integrated colony of whites and Negroes in Georgia, the book transposes the writings of St. Paul into a modern-day setting, the U.S. South. Galatians thus becomes The Letter to the Churches of the Georgia Convention, while 1 Thessalonians is translated...
After 26 years of probing Southern mores with Jewish humor, Harry Golden, 64, closed down his bimonthly Carolina Israelite. He will merge it with the Nation, for which he will write a column. Health and financial problems caused him to give up the Charlotte, N.C., tabloid; in the last six years he has lost $65,000. "A man can open a Cadillac franchise for less money than newsprint and printing-labor cost," he wrote in his final issue. He added that he has also been losing his readership. "To the generation that succeeded mine, stories about the Lower East Side...
...threatened by external forces, and it has passed the Tonkin Resolution, which even Senator William Fulbright conceded at the time gave the President the authority to use such force as could lead to war. Many U.S. Presidents have had much less support for their actions, notably Lincoln, who blockaded Southern ports without congressional consent...