Word: work
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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With Emancipation, the Negro was free to do as he pleased in America; but the hoped-for change in status did not come about. In effect, as the New York Post remarked about Senator Byrd's practice of shipping in West Indies Negroes to work in his Southern orchards at less than the U.S. minimum wage, the white man no longer owned his slaves; he rented them. Some individual Negoes were able to earn positions of esteem in the Negro community and even gained respect in the white community, insofar as they became the liasons and chief deferrers...
...Negro culture. It represented much of what they had repressed in themselves. At worst, they distorted it terribly--stereotypes inevitably are caricatures, Partly because of little contact with Negroes, the whites did not recognize Negroes' desires to become middle class, that is, their increasingly widespread commitment to education, work, and non-violent behavior. The worst in Negro culture became no different from the worst in white culture, but through absence of personal acquaintance of whites and Negroes, the whole of Negro culture became inaccurately identified with the worst...
...problem of the Negro remained one of convincing the whites of his genuine commitment to middle class white values, in order to move successfully into the dominant American middle class life. He tried straightening his hair, and even bleaching his skin. But the guaranteed preparations didn't quite work. And so the Negro, albeit unconsciously, sought to convince the white that even if his appearance would never be white, his behavior did not conform to the stereotype of the sexually licentious, Knife-wielding darkie. In the fact of so little opportunity for mutual contact and understanding a spectacular tactic...
...education, via the Supreme Court decision, had become the symbolic issue of equal rights. Except perhaps for their teachers, the students were most affected and most concerned about the inferior schools they and their younger brothers and sisters attended. As college students they knew that neither their college preparatory work not the courses of learning now open to them were on a par with those available in the North or even in the white South. They had sacrificed the immediate gratifications of job and family for education and were aware that on paper their degrees should entitle them to positions...
...purpose of the rally," Barber , "is to show that Saltonstall's opponent, Democrat Thomas O'Connor, has monopoly on youth support in Massachusetts." He asserted that the Saltonstall bumper stickers being played are almost all the work of young Republicans...