Word: niggered
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...growing tension, New Orleans' police reinforced their cordon around the school. That only seemed to make the mob angrier. Reporters and photographers were attacked. The Rev. Jerome Drolet, a Catholic priest who accompanied the Foremans to school one morning, was met with cries of "bastard," "Communist" and "nigger lover." Restlessly, the mob moved to the Foremans' frame cottage, stoned the family's black-and-white dog. "Look," cried one woman, "even their dog's integrated." When police shooed the women away, they went to a hospitable neighbor's lawn, where self-styled "cheerleaders" chanted their...
...laborer in Pine Bluff, Ark. "Good education is important," says he. "My kids are going to graduate from high school." Last spring he heard incredible news: Dollarway School would accept Negro first-graders this fall under a complex placement test. John D. marched Delores, 6, straight to Dollarway. "Nigger," jeered a white crowd surrounding the pair, "why do you want to register her in a white school?" John D. answered quietly: "Because it is a public school." Then he took his child's hand and went about his business. Delores became the first-and only-Negro student accepted...
When he was 40, Music Critic Carl Van Vechten was disposed to quit writing critical essays because at that age, he believed, his "intellectual arteries" had hardened. The affliction apparently did him no harm: after that he wrote seven novels about what made the Twenties roar (The Tattooed Countess, Nigger Heaven), twelve other books about music and himself, a definitive tome on cats (The Tiger in the House)-and all manner of critical essays, including some on photography, a durable interest in which versatile Van Vechten still excels. Still a chronic essayist, Van Vechten turned 80 last week...
...presence of a big (6 ft. 2½ in., 213 Ibs.) cop named Eugene Smith (TIME. Aug. 24). Police Chief Smith and his squads were ready for the mob leaders, picked them out one by one and sent them off to jail in paddy wagons. Amid cries of "Nigger lover!'' and "Coward!" Gene Smith, who never bothered about philosophizing on segregation issues but merely prided himself on being a tough law-enforcement man, handled the explosive situation calmly, finally stopped the mobs with fire hoses. Many people never forgave Smith for his stand...
...against the compulsion to serve God: "You have to take hold and put temptation behind you. If you baptize once, you'll be doing it the rest of your life. If it's an idiot this time, the next time it's liable to be a nigger.'' Now, at his uncle's grave, he throws himself to the ground and hears the order: GO WARN THE CHILDREN OF GOD OF THE TERRIBLE SPEED OF MERCY...