Word: lincolns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nevertheless, some of the noblest of Americans were bemused. Not only Jefferson but later Abraham Lincoln was to give the scheme credence. According to Historian John Hope Franklin, Negro colonization seemed as important to Lincoln as emancipation. In 1862, Franklin notes, Lincoln called a group of prominent free Negroes to the White House and urged them to support colonization, telling them: "Your race suffers greatly, many of them by living among us, while ours suffers from your presence. If this is admitted, it affords a reason why we should be separated...
...spite of his unquestioned greatness, Abraham Lincoln was a man of his times and limited by some of the less worthy thinking of his times. This is demonstrated both by his reliance upon the concept of race in his analysis of the American dilemma and by his involvement in a plan of purging the nation of blacks as a means of healing the badly shattered ideals of democratic federalism. Although benign, his motive was no less a product of fantasy. It envisaged an attempt to relieve an inevitable suffering that marked the growing pains of the youthful body politic...
Liberating Power. Spurred by the black community's strengthened sense of identity, black women have their own complaint. In the Negro Digest, Actress Abbey Lincoln burst out: "We are the women whose bars and recreation halls are invaded by flagrantly disrespectful, bigoted, simpering, amoral, emotionally unstable, outcast, maladjusted, nymphomaniacal, condescending [white] women in desperate and untiring search" for black men. In the first issue of the new black women's magazine Essence, due out April 28, Writer Louise Meriwether describes a typical dashiki-clad black man and his white date: " 'Sensual, sexy Black man.' That...
...windows are rolled up and the air in the Lincoln humming cold. Merilee has been sleeping with Girl on her lap for cover...
BELIEVE IT OR NOT, the musical theatre, like nearly every other part of our culture, has its own underground Hang around for a while in New York's Upper West Side or Lincoln Center or Bartley's-any place where intellectuals gather-and pretty soon you will overhear a crowd of animated types talking about those great forgone musicals. You know, shows like the late Mare Blitzstein's Juno (1959) or Bock and Harnick's She Loves Me (1963) or Stephen Sondheim's Anyone Can Whistle (1964). (Well maybe you don't know, in which case you may very well...