He worked as an errand boy and when his father opened a grocery store he started working there full time. ... There were many other brutal killings of blacks, riots and destruction. This began the migration of blacks to rigid segregation. ... These blacks, headed by the "militant" leader W.E.B. ... So many of the southern blacks were longing to escape the hand of Jim Crow. ...
He is still regarded mainly as the black leader of a movement for black equality. ... A 14-year-old black boy like Emmett Till could be hunted down and murdered by a Mississippi gang simply because he had supposedly made suggestive remarks to white woman. ... KKK members burned blacks' homes and churches, and even hanged blacks simply for "talking back- to whites. ... Being a minister not only put King in touch with the spirit of the black masses but also gave him a base within the black church, then and now the strongest and most independent of black institutions. Bus Boycott Montgom...
Although Asians and Asian Americans have been present on American television screens for decades, [1] few television series have featured Asian or Asian Americans in starring roles. Kung Fu (Warner Bros, ABC, 1972-1975), starring David Carradine as Kwai-Chang Caine, featured a white American actor ...
He has written a note and sent it around to all the people in the community, but most of them didn't get it. ... The woman tells her the boy's name is Guitar. The nurse spells out the name of the building where the security guard is and tells the boy to run and get him. ... While as a Black man he can't get the prime properties, he is able to get land no one else thinks about and land that no one wants to sell to Jews or Catholics. ...
