Word: southwesterner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Rolling over 700 square miles in southwestern Tennessee, Fayette County is a Black-belt area where cotton is king, the white man is prince, and Negro sharecroppers for years have easy credit and good will-so long as they keep out of trouble. After Congress passed the Civil Rights Act in 1957, Fayette County Negroes began to line up in increasing numbers to register as voters. The whites cared less about the law than the fact that in Fayette County, Negroes outnumber whites...
Died. Clyde Kay Maben Kluckhohn, 55, anthropologist, authority on Southwestern Indian culture, a director of the Army's massive study of Japan during World War II and from 1947 to 1954 of the West's largest private Russian-research center, at Harvard; of a heart attack; in Sante...
...other books centered upon anthropology, primarily studies of Navaho culture. In addition to his teaching duties, he served as Curator of Southwestern American Ethnology in the Peabody Museum...
...Bobotes were Montenegrin villagers from a tiny settlement near the southwestern shore of Lake Scutari (now in Albania...
...earlier books, from A Lamp on the Plains to his two-volume Great River: the Rio Grande, Author Horgan, 56, has shown his mastery of the Southwestern scene. In this novel he writes, as usual, with a fine cinematographic flair, and there are impressive wide-screen episodes: a gun fight at a water hole in the gullied, mountain-rimmed desert near Fort Delivery; the punishment of a cowardly trooper who, before the eyes of the assembled garrison, is branded on the hips with the letter D for deserter; the Indian encampment of Rainbow Son-Horgan's fictional version...