Word: offing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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A native of Costa Rica and mother of six, Daisey had kept her daughter home when the school reopened after the Thanksgiving holiday: "I was so scared. Who am I to fight the whole state of Louisiana and the Governor, I asked myself." But later, she had second thoughts. "My...
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Amid the 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...
"We're Going to Help." Against the mob's passion, the Foreman and Gabrielle families wavered. The Foremans. harassed by obscene telephone calls, moved to the home of friends. Lloyd Foreman hesitated about bringing his little girl to school again. "Frankly," he said, "at this point, I don...
Then, almost overnight, a reaction seemed to set in. Both the Foremans and the Gabrielles began getting sympathetic letters. Daisey Gabrielle and Yolanda were driven home from school by members of a housewives' volunteer committee. "We're gathering the people who want to send their children to school...