Word: tenn
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...home town, Clinton, Tenn., had just become integrated. Many of the scenes of those days will never leave my memory. At the courthouse, endless speeches inflamed the night air. On the outskirts of town lighted crosses sat overlooking the city as white knights danced beneath them. On my 15th birthday a series of bombs erupted inside our school, and for two years I was among 1,000 high school students who rode 13 miles a day to a lent-out grammar school, where the commodes were the right height for second-graders...
Columbia, Tenn...
Walter J. Leonard, special assistant to President Bok and a nationally-recognized advocate of affirmative action, may leave his post at Harvard to assume the presidency of Fiske University, a predominantly black school in Nashville, Tenn...
...Motor City, for instance, more and more residents are doing all their food shopping on weekends at the sprawling Detroit market. Says Nowal Makhoul, owner of a local fruit market: "Without the Detroit market, we'd be booming. With it, it's a real struggle." In Nashville, Tenn., merchants once tried strenuously-but unsuccessfully -to close down market stalls as violations of zoning regulations...
...slow journey down the red shag aisles of the Republican Convention was like a tour that Ken Baker of Jackson, Tenn., might have set up in his travel agency to show off postcard America...