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...Thomas in a nearby school staffed by what white Catholics called "nigger nuns." They rode in the back of the bus with their students on field trips and rapped the palms of the children who did not hand in homework. Thomas' grandfather took him to meetings of the local chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, where he read his grandson's grades out loud...
Henry, a thickset man of 68, has been head of the state chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People since the civil rights movement was at its peak. Mississippi's Delta was one of its deadliest battlegrounds, a crescent of tormented land between Memphis and Vicksburg, hemmed by the Mississippi and Yazoo rivers, the poorest and blackest part of this country. A generation ago, some of the most oppressed blacks in the most harshly segregated state in the U.S. rose to claim their share of America's dream, and some whites did their violent worst...
...fellow researcher are kidnapped by an armed student volleyball team. Boyd also tries his hand at a fashionable fictional device -- passages of italicized commentary interspersed through the narrative. He doesn't need this kind of frill, but when he is not being pompous, he makes his point: the chapter in which Hope is kidnapped by the volleyballers is preceded by a deadpan account of the sport's origins in Massachusetts...
...company's stunning success has bulldozed others out of an industry in which more than 350 major firms are trying to compete. Channel Home Centers, a New Jersey-based chain that has been saddled with a $268 million load of debt since it went private in 1986, entered Chapter 11 bankruptcy last January and plans to sell or close 34 of its 86 stores. Hechinger Co., a major Maryland- based chain of 115 centers, lost $800,000 in last year's fourth quarter before rebounding with a $7.2 million profit in the first quarter this year. That was down from...
...those schools have something Harvard doesn't--frats. So with time on his hands, Ramos and a handful of friends started the Harvard chapter of Zeta Psi and created a ready-made "group of guys" with whom to hang out, pound beers and take the occasional road-trip...