Word: negroness
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Hungarian freedom fighter won TIME'S nomination for 1956, I suggest, for 1960, it be the Negro freedom fighter. He fought for equality in the South, political freedom in the new nations of Africa and for just freedom in the Union of South Africa...
...brought immediate outcries of impropriety. Jack satisfied himself that the objections were serious but not fatal, and withheld Bobby's appointment till the last moment, while the public was told of other choices. Another trial balloon, Bill Fulbright as Secretary of State, was quickly shot down by Negro groups and Northern liberals who feared his tepid segregationist background. Negro Congressman William Dawson, 74, suggested as a possible Postmaster General, was never seriously considered as a candidate despite Dawson's announced refusal of the job and Kennedy's public regrets. But as a trial balloon, his consideration presumably...
...Rusk was scratching a living as a rural schoolteacher and a small cotton farmer in Cherokee County. When Dean was four, his father got a job as a mail carrier in Atlanta, and the family moved to a frame house on Whitehall Street, just beyond the edge of the Negro district. The children wore underwear made at home out of flour sacks, often trudged along the nearby railroad tracks in winter to gather stray lumps of coal. But the parents had something more valuable than material advantages to give. "We grew up," recalls Dean's elder brother Roger...
Married. Adam Clayton Powell, 52, Negro clergyman and Democratic Congressman from Harlem, recently divorced from Jazz Pianist Hazel Scott; and Ivette Diago, 29, Powell's Puerto Rican secretary; he for the third time, she for the second, in San Juan, Puerto Rico...
...bloc favors the states with large urban populations and gives decisive influence to minority groups within these states. Anyone who doubts this can look at the enormous (and correct) importance attached to these states by both Kennedy and Nixon. And both parties were forced to bid for the crucial Negro vote with daring civil rights planks...