Word: atlanta
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Jack Johnson became legend in the eyes of the early twentieth century's young Negro because he rebelled against the suggested "race behavior patterns" set by Booker T. Washington in Atlanta in 1895, patterns which remained unchanged until mid-century. Said' Washington to the white...
...hidden among gardening and coin and stamp collection news. She does not limit her criticism to New York City but attacks "urbicide" everywhere. Washington's Mussolini-classical Rayburn Building she calls "the biggest star-spangled architectural blunder of our time." Centers for the arts in New York, Washington, and Atlanta arouse her ire with their timid unwillingness to assert conscious modernity. Her criticism also strikes forcefully at the destruction of architecturally significant structures; she favors tasteful preservations with a social purpose, not reconstructed kitsch...
...Harvard is concerned is speculation that Heard was offered the presidency at Columbia in 1969 and Vanderbilt made him pledge to remain on there as chancellor. How binding such a pledge would be in relation to Harvard-if it actually was made-is not known. was born in Atlanta, Georgia, and should he be selected, would be the first Harvard president from the deep South...
...South, as I see it, is sometimes bad but sometimes better than the Yankee North. If Young [Andrew Young, a black who lost a congressional race in Atlanta] had been elected, there would have been many besides those who voted for him who would have been proud. "Look here," they would have said, "look what the South has done." I believe that many white Southerners who do not like school desegregation would probably take me to a desegregated school and be proud of it. There's this thing of the fait accompli: once accepted, it seems...
...undergraduates will visit Miami, Atlanta, Pittsburgh, New York, Philadelphia, Washington and Baltimore to recruit and counsel black high school students. The admissions office grant will finance their expenses; the students will donate their time...