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...cancer; in Mound Bayou, Miss. At a Baptist rally in 1962, Mrs. Hamer heard civil rights workers urge blacks to use their ballots. "I never knew we could vote before," she later recalled. "Nobody ever told us." Two years later she electrified the Democratic National Convention with her graphic tales of being brutally beaten by police while trying to register black voters. She continued to organize voters, unions and farm cooperatives, eventually helping to integrate the Mississippi Democratic Party...
...many critics, Roots was an Uncle Tom's Cabin for television. The short series included a number of unusually graphic scenes: the tribal rite of circumcision, the torturous voyage from Africa aboard a slaver, whippings, rapes and even the hatcheting of Kunta Kinte's foot. For many black viewers, Roots succeeded in putting flesh on the bones of their Afro-American heritage. "We all knew what slavery was, by hearsay and by family tradition," noted Boston Journalist Robert Jordan. "But this put all those feelings in living color where you've got to believe them." Said Little...
...Pitting the News against Hearst's Light, Murdoch began a circulation war that increased his paper's sales by 18,000, to 78,000, while his rivals' dropped slightly, to 125,000. The fight brought out the worst in both publications. After turning the News front page into a graphic jungle of black boxes and red arrows, Murdoch provided a daily diet of rape and mayhem, tortured tots and killer bees. One classic story: "A divorced epileptic, who told police she was buried alive in a bathtub full of wet cement and later hanged upside down in the nude, left...
...tool sheds and much of the other available wall surface in China. The ubiquitous presence of these uniquely Chinese ideological weapons-wall posters-testified to the relentless campaign being carried out by party leaders against Chiang Ch'ing, the widow of Mao Tse-tung. Every week brings a graphic new twist to the pictorial record of her wicked ways. As the leader of the radical "Gang of Four"* accused of attempting to seize power after Mao's death last September, Chiang Ch'ing is pictured as a scheming empress of days long past. Alternatively she is depicted...
...UNICORN TAPESTRIES by Margaret B. Freeman. 244 pages. The Metropolitan Museum of Art/Dutton. $45. The seven magnificent tapestries depicting the hunt of the unicorn (on permanent display at the Cloisters in Manhattan) dazzle the eye. Woven into the tapestries' more than 1,000 sq. ft. is a graphic portrait of the medieval mind, frozen at a time (circa 1500) when thought was beginning to shift from heaven to earth. Thus while the tapestries tell the story of a bridegroom brought to the altar and of the death and resurrection of Christ, they also show the realistic hunt...