Word: spelman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...segregation of this Black lower-class was clear to me when I visited Spelman College, a prestigious Black women's school, and the adjacent Moorhouse College for men. I saw the manicured yards and red brick buildings of Harvard, parking lots packed with Porsches and BMWs, and students in designer outfits...
...these campuses form a fortress against the surrounding West End neighborhood. Spelman is shielded with barbed wire and 24 hour guard posts. The Spelman student I was with couldn't stand to see the gathering of Black teens on a nearby street corner; they had no ambition, she said...
...hour and 15 minutes. "When the radio traffic announcer advises to stay clear of a certain area, I drive right to that point," he says, figuring that the warning has cleared the congestion by dispersing most commuters onto different routes. Others, like Kathi Douglas, a recent graduate of Spelman College in Atlanta, undergo an attitude change. "I'm laid back and talkative, yet once I get on the road, I have no respect for rules and regulations," says Douglas. "You get to be really aggressive because you think it's the only way to get out of this madness...
That approach has sustained a lifelong struggle for social change. In her senior year at all-black Spelman College in Atlanta, Edelman became active in the 1960s civil rights movement. While volunteering in the local office of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, she became aware that there were no attorneys to represent poor blacks. She went off to Yale Law School, then became the first black woman admitted to the Mississippi bar. As a staff attorney for the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, she met her husband Peter, a fellow attorney and an adviser...
Rome Reporters Walter Galling and Leonora Dodsworth find that the strong dollar hasn't changed their lives. Says Galling: "There's a little thing here called inflation." Munich Reporter Franz Spelman recalls the sad days of the wilting dollar. "Just eight years ago," he says, "some Germans, remembering the CARE packages that Americans sent after World War II, began giving the families of needy U.S. servicemen toys, clothing and furniture...