Word: watkinses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Club Klan. Few of the segregation academies charge less than $40 a month tuition, and only a handful of blue-collar whites can afford such fees. As a result they feel that they are being deserted by their wealthier neighbors. Greenville Lawyer J. Wesley Watkins III believes that their resentment...
Sir: In "Ecology of a Ghetto," you state: "[Leo Watkins] recognized that his inability to read or write was his main problem." With nine children ranging in age from twelve years to seven months, I would venture a guess that arithmetic poses a greater problem.
With eleven people in the four-bedroom apartment, it is no wonder that the Watkins children yearn to go elsewhere. But where? The older ones can walk to the movies-27 blocks away. The younger ones can attend a Head Start program or either of two nearby elementary schools. But...
Mrs. Watkins would like her children to enjoy the Circle Campus, only a few minutes' walk away. "One day some boys were put in jail for walking across there while a track meet was going on for white boys. The university people said, 'Your boys will stick up...
John Kelleher, English; Rogers Albriton, Philosophy; Zeph Stewart, Classics; Harry T. Levin, Comparative Literature; Alan E. Heimert, English; Herbert A. Bloch, Classics; Donald A. Stone, Romance Languages and Literature; Willard V. O. Quine, Philosophy; Calvert C. Watkins, Linguistics.