Word: watermelon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...training a group of young people, mostly unemployed, here at Watermelon College in the South, with the intention of dispatching them to New York City to correct the deplorable conditions existing in Harlem. We are sure that the good people of New York will greet our crusaders with the same enthusiasm that the people of Mississippi have displayed toward their do-gooder visitors from Ohio...
...against this wall you just could feel it was quivering." Before leaving she recalled girlhood days in Alabama: "Until I was about 20, summertime always meant Alabama to me. With Aunt Effie we would board the train in Marshall and ride to the part of the world that meant watermelon cuttings, picnics at the creek, and a lot of company every Sunday. I am so glad, I am so glad I could come down and visit with you again...
Johnson has traveled widely, but the image he always projected was of a hearty backslapper who stopped to chat with a sidewalk watermelon vendor in Beirut, who invited a Pakistani camel driver to "come and see us, heah?" and who gave out ballpoint pens wherever he went. "He shakes hands with everybody," said a Thai clerk after Johnson stormed Bangkok, "no matter if they are dirty or what." Johnson knows scores of foreign leaders, but their meetings rarely went much beyond the handshaking technique that he calls "pressing the flesh and looking them...
...bullet tore into Evers' back, plowed through his body, pierced a window and a wall in the house, and came to rest beneath a watermelon on a kitchen counter. Evers' wife Myrlie cried to her three small children to fall to the floor. She ran outside. "Medgar was lying there on the doorstep in a pool of blood," she said. "I tried to get the children away. But they saw it all-the blood and the bullet hole that went right through...
...Watermelon & Images. The Negro no longer can be controlled by white America's image of him. "This fact," says Baldwin, "has everything...