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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...TIME'S article on tobacco spitting [Aug. 17] appears to treat the subject as a novelty outside of Raleigh, Miss. That it is an established art is evidenced by a quotation from our beloved Hoosier poet, James Whitcomb Riley: "Speakin' o' art -I know a feller over t' Terry Haute 'at kin spit clean over...
...great many others. In Greenville, Miss., where attitudes tend to be more extreme than in the upper South, most of the city's 10,124 students moved quietly into schools that had been desegregated through a pairing plan drawn up by a local biracial commission. At Macon, Ga., all but 2,000 of the system's 33,000 children showed up for the opening of classes in once segregated schools. And in Houston, blacks and whites went to school together-while Mexican Americans, who resented being classified as white instead of "brown," stayed out in protest...
...elimination of dual school systems has reduced the number of teaching and supervisory positions, costing many black educators their jobs or senior status. Columbia and Madison County, Miss., summarily fired 24 black teachers at the end of the last school year; Greenville reshuffled 21 athletic coaches when it desegregated its system. One black teacher in Pearl, Miss., who is trained in English and Spanish has been assigned to teach home economics in a newly unified system. Unequipped for the job, she expects to be fired for incompetence...
...only the black institutions but their records of athletic and scholastic achievement. Some blacks fear studying under white teachers. "They grade differently," says Tanya Puckett, a Nashville, Tenn., senior. "Negro teachers will skip over a chapter and not 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...
...Wall Street. Since Aug. 13, the Dow-Jones industrial average has climbed 59 points before leveling off as a result of profit taking; the average closed last week at 766, v. a May low of 631. Some mutual funds and other institutional buyers were purchasing aggressively lest they miss the start of a new bull market...