Word: carver
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...hold you responsible for it. With white teachers, if you miss a test, that's it. I'm afraid I might not graduate." Whites taking over a previously black school in Thibodaux, La., promptly painted over murals that showed Booker T. Washington and George Washington Carver. And whites continue to treat blacks with condescension. Greenville School Superintendent Thompson says desegregation will work only if the blacks "keep their mouths shut and don't get pushy." Otherwise, says Thompson, he will "inherit an empty shell...
...Left behind to be stored, scattered or abandoned are trophies, pictures, plaques, and every symbol of black identity, of black students' achievements." For one black school in Louisiana, the wonders of integration were symbolized by the fate of a large mural depicting Booker T. Washington and George Washington Carver. When whites took control of the building, they wasted no time in painting it over...
...know, and I can make three ideas in bronze for every one I make in stone." Nevertheless, carving was Moore's first love. "When I was a young sculptor nine out of every ten pieces I did were in wood or stone. I thought that a stone carver was superior to a modeler." In recent years Moore has increasingly indulged himself in carving. Since 1965, he has spent his summers at Forte dei Marmi near the famous Carrara marble quarries. He sometimes spends whole days tramping over the quarries to find the right piece of stone. "I like...