Word: thompson
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...effort to give blacks a more equitable share of the nation's goods and benefits has had results-uneven but undeniable. Increasingly, blacks are seen in offices of corporations and banks, in classrooms of elite colleges, in officers' clubs, affluent suburbs, theaters, tourist haunts. Says Daniel C. Thompson, chairman of the sociology department at New Orleans' predominantly black Dillard University: "Being black and qualified is the most valuable commodity in American society...
...means you can live above the survival level and have some whims as well as needs," says the Rev. William Lawson, a Baptist preacher in Houston. For Mary Davis, a Chicago urban planner, being middle class means "going to a good school, being clean and taking a bath." Evelyn Thompson, a reporter for KOOL-TV in Phoenix, recalling the well-done cuts of cheap pork that poor blacks consume, observes: "You know a black has been assimilated into the middle class if he eats rare meat...
...with a pride, confidence and political skill they had not known before. It also made them far less color-conscious than their middle-class predecessors. For many, in fact, black became "beautiful." Toughened by struggle, some of these blacks may now be the superachievers of American society. Sociologist Daniel Thompson argues that contemporary middle-class blacks are "105% Americans-the modern translation of the American spirit. The basic standard of success is the black person's ability to operate in both the black and white communities." Leon Chestang, assistant professor at the University of Chicago, believes that the black...
...increasing extent, middle-class blacks and whites enjoy the same kind of after-hours recreation. Nevertheless, at certain times in certain places, the two groups relax in decidedly different ways. With due allowance for literary license, Reporter Evelyn Thompson contrasts black and white parties in Phoenix. "At the white party, the guests always stay standing up, discuss serious topics for maybe three to 15 minutes and then move on to speak with other people. At a black party, you just 'jive' in one big group, putting each other on, trying to top the last line. A white party...
...Thompson denied that this affected his decision and explained that he would rather live on the West Coast...