Word: white
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Psyche Bag. Dulin warmed up for his present job as a physical education instructor at St. Mary's High School in tiny, all-white West Point, Iowa. It was the only job offered to him after he graduated from St. Joseph's College in his home state of Indiana. A bachelor when he arrived in West Point, Dulin soon married, had three children and moved down the road to Fort Madison, a town with 300 blacks. There he quickly became president of the local chapter of the NAACP. The folks in West Point still remember the day when...
Christo-he never uses his surname-knows how to muffle a rampant motorcycle so that it acquires the petrified dynamism of a stuffed buffalo or a blind folded rhinoceros. He can embalm a slender sapling so that it lies with the mute pathos of Pearl White bound and gagged on the railroad track. His current winding sheet in Chicago enfolds a cadaver so Brobdingnagian that even the man in the street has been confronted by the undertaking...
...education for help in controlling student unrest. Help is needed; the troubles that have been plaguing college campuses for the past few years are now beginning to infect high schools. Much of the strife seems to be a spontaneous eruption of purely racial antagonism, pitting black students against white students and white teachers, but more and more of it is being deliberately generated by organizations newly formed to press student demands...
...students have demonstrated in the streets for the right to form an Afro club and wear Afro clothes, and had their demands granted. In Cambridge, they have sought to be photographed for the yearbook with fists raised proudly in the Black Power salute; they were turned down by the white principal, on the ground that "yearbook pictures are supposed to be static and not show subjects in motion...
...denied a big enough voice in curriculum planning and school discipline. Teachers and headmasters, they said, made a point of minimizing racial and cultural differences; and in the process they squander one of the greatest advantages that independent schools can offer. Removed from the tensions of the city, white student and black, Jew and gentile, could learn to live together while respecting and learning from each other's heritage. At Mount Hermon, for example, where 50% of the students receive some financial aid, minority groups of all sorts are unusually well represented. "The trouble is," said one black student...