Word: white
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Formed Image. Newsmen increasingly face the dilemma encountered by New York Times Reporter Judy Klemesrud. Interviewing the wife of Black Panther Fugitive Eldridge Cleaver, she was confronted not only by a stream of obscenity directed at white society, but also by Mrs. Cleaver's outspoken contempt for a paper that would not print her language. Judy tried to include one of Mrs. Cleaver's words in the story, but the word was deleted-and so was the story itself after the first edition...
...winter night, the neon signs of Crouch Temple glow with a lonely halo in the Los Angeles mist. Central Avenue, not far from the scene of the 1965 Watts riots, is quiet. But inside the temple, a converted theater, the night is alive. Some 2,000 people-black, white and brown-are turned toward the stage, crying "Hallelujah" and "God be praised!" For more than an hour the tension has been building up. Testimonies, gospel songs, pledges, blessings, and more songs-a writhing, Presleyan, shirt-open gospel rock driven home by an organ, drums and piano combo. Women are swaying...
...pension fund with $5,450,000 for the next three years. The owners had been holding out for $5,300,000, the players for $5,900,000. So who won? Most fans, noting the embarrassment that the boycott of spring training caused both players and management, agreed with Chicago White Sox Owner Arthur Allyn: "As I see it, it was a loss for all parties concerned...
...What's It All About, World?, Guest Tommy Smothers led off one bit with Negro regular Scoey Mitchell by announcing: "Scoey and I felt that tonight we would like to take a step toward breaking down the barriers between the races." "We realize," continued Scoey, "that if a white man were to kiss a black girl, that would offend many people." Tommy pointed out that "on the other hand, if a black man were to kiss a white girl, that, too, would offend many people. So we would like to take the only logical step we could take where...
...Andy went off in 1953, black comedy (al beit in a somewhat more sensitive and sophisticated form) fills the air. On an upcoming Rowan and Martin show, the entire cast appears in black face for one number; Chelsea Brown, the show's sassy Negro comedienne, naturally is in white face, as is Guest Tony Curtis. For the snapper, Judy Carne turns to Chelsea and says: "I have only been black for five minutes, but I'm already fed up with you white chicks...