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Word: strug (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tactic in the U.S. - the closing of all public schools there since 1959. White officials requested extra jail space in eight surrounding counties - enough, said one Negro leader, "to house every citizen of Prince Edward County, Negro and white, including horses, cattle and dogs." The poignant point of the strug gle was summed up in one teen-age picket's placard. It read: DEMOCRASY. "These niggers can't even spell," scoffed a white cop. "What do you expect?" snapped a Negro minister. "They haven't been in school for four years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Schools: Catching Up in Prince Edward | 8/9/1963 | See Source »

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