Word: walden
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What had gone wrong? Despite its vaunted reputation, the city's actual racial progress had long been bogged down in tokenism-and militant young Negroes finally got fed up. When respected Negro Attorney A. T. Walden, 78, co-chairman of an Atlanta Summit Leadership Conference of nine civil rights groups, tried to negotiate with the city's white hotel and restaurant owners and seemed to be getting nowhere, the younger Negroes took the matter out of his hands...
Demonstrators started off by picketing a local chain of restaurants. After two weeks and 24 arrests, the owners agreed to serve Negroes. When other restaurant owners still resisted, Walden again counseled against demonstrations. At a Summit meeting, an angry young Negro shouted, "To hell with you, Uncle Tom," and walked out; others followed immediately. The Summit Conference itself then decided to go along with the militants...
...possible. Some thought nothing should be built in, others demanded walls that were nail-able and tape-able. Many suggested movable furniture and room shapes adaptable to many different arrangements. "The chief trouble with the new dorms (North House) is that they're too closely planned. They're like Walden Two," wrote one girl...
There is a kind of privacy even in the mass. "You find it driving to work, alongside all those other people, but alone with your thoughts," says California's Sociologist Edward McDonagh. "The car has become a secular sanctuary for the individual, his shrine to the self, his mobile Walden Pond...
...Mate Richard McKenna was the very model of a seagoing sailor; he had joined the Navy during the Depression, served 22 years on everything from a river gunboat in China to a destroyer off Korea. In 1953 McKenna suddenly deep-sixed the old salt image. Stumbling on Walden, he felt that his mind had been "in a deep freeze," decided to retire and become a writer. An old skipper charted his new course: go to the University of North Carolina, a good place for "a man with a purpose...