Word: white
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...kids waited at the front of the crowd. They said that the Negroes got off from school yesterday to go hear Dick Gregory, and so it was alright for them to take today off to see Wallace. Their high school was 55 per cent Negro, they said, and the white kids were pretty much all for Wallace...
Then he asked me if he had any support at Harvard. I searched about for something to say, and remembered that some of my friends had distributed an idiotically hyperbolic pamphlet at the Wallace Rally in Boston, in which they urged the voters to sweep Wallace "to the White House and beyond," so I said, "Well, there is one small group which distributed a pamphlet for you at your rally in Boston last week..." and Wallace nodded gravely and said...
...that's only half the battle, as Bond readily admits. He must also do the same thing that he described to the audience at Babson: devise new alternatives coupled with political power. "This involves politicizing poor whites as well as blacks," Bond says. "In the main, the poor white and most blacks in the South are facing the same kinds of political and economic oppression. This is why building alliances between economic strata of whites and blacks is going to be so crucial to cracking the oppressive syndrome of southern politics. Something that won't change as quickly...
...finally Rod Stewart. One of the very rare white blues singers worth listening to, he has some of the soul of Otis Redding, some of the swing of Sam Cooke, and some of the fervor of B. B. King -- all of which add up to make him a worthy performer in his own right. He is supple and responsive on stage and contributes just by his presence to the infectious gaiety of the group...
SATURDAY morning, Sione rises early to assume the first of several identities he will take on during the day--that of team manager. He sees that the red-and-white flags are properly placed along the boundaries of the field, that the oval-shaped rugby balls are procured from the equipment room in Dillon Field House, and that honey, oranges, and beer for half-time are bought...