Word: douglass
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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HOWARD'S BAG by DOUGLASS WALLOP 208 pages. Norton...
...aged figure of Abolitionist Douglass struggled out of the chair. "Agitate!" he cried. "Agitate! Agitate!" Blackout. A single spotlight cut through the darkness, focusing on the old rocking chair-now empty, still swaying back and forth. The audience rose to its feet for a thunderous ovation...
...piled high with printer's galleys and papers. He was finishing a dreamlike trip through his childhood, the final moment in a two-hour monologue on slavery, war and American history. From a packed audience at New York's Town Hall, a voice asked, "Mr. Douglass, what do we do? What...
Arthur Burghardt, 25, who wrote and starred in the Douglass drama, got up the next morning, drank a bottle of champagne and then went to Manhattan's federal courthouse and gave himself up to start a five-year prison term for rejecting induction into the Army...
...senior legal officer, Colonel John Douglass was the man to whom Herbert first complained after Major General John Barnes relieved him of battalion command on April 4, 1969. Douglass categorically denied Herbert's version of their conversation. According to Herbert, he spoke at length to Douglass and told him about the atrocities. Douglass said that it was a short meeting with no mention of bloodshed. "Why haven't you said this up to now?" Wallace asked incredulously. "Nobody's asked me," replied Douglass...