Tag: journalism
group name: thesixties
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April 07, 2006 05:44 AM EDT --
Lunch counter sit-ins at Woolworths
JFK elected President
Peace Corp program announced
Yuri Gargarin, first man in space
Bay of Pigs
Alan Shepard, first American in space
16,000 U.S. advisors sent to Vietnam . . . more
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April 08, 2006 08:26 AM EDT --
The setting was Woolworth's in Greensboro, North Carolina. The day was February 1, 1960.
Franklin McCain, Joseph McNeil, Ezell Blair, Jr. and David Richmond were four young men who attended Agriculture . . . more
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April 25, 2006 02:09 PM EDT --
The year was 1962. James Meredith was a student at the University of Mississippi.
That his final acceptance into the university was won by such strife is a disgrace in our civil rights history. . . . more
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September 15, 2006 04:17 PM EDT --
FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS
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October 16, 2006 07:31 AM EDT --
Here are links to some of the articles I've published since January. These include Fiction, Family Stories and my series The Sixties.
I have links to my poetry and lyrical stories that I will publish . . . more
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April 28, 2006 08:43 AM EDT --
No history of the 1960s is complete without Rosa Parks.
Rosa Parks, then in her 40s and working as a seamstress in a department store in Montgomery, Alabama, was emboldened by her membership in the . . . more
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December 07, 2007 12:45 AM EST --
I havd been perusing a copy of THIS IS OUR WAR, for several days now. The forward is by Wesley Clark, a hero of mine. The introduction is by Devin Friedman, who answered questions for the . . . more
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May 30, 2007 06:12 PM EDT --
I have been banished to Cy-beria for exercising my freedom of speech as a blogger and citizen journalist by the publisher, Walter Brooks, and his website, capecodtoday.com that publicly . . . more
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May 14, 2007 10:18 AM EDT --
I like the History Channel. I spent a good part of Sunday glued to it as they aired shows about Banned Books from the Bible (Parts I & II).
During those shows, previews for an evening program about . . . more
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March 20, 2007 05:57 PM EDT --
Jeremiah O’Sullivan was dean of Marquette’s College of Journalism in the 1950s when I was a stuent there. All those who studied under him and the faculty members called him simply, “the . . . more
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April 11, 2007 12:48 PM EDT --
I for one am not surprised at the dialogue that was spewed by Don Imus on his program. This is something that I have grown to expect, the reality is that many Americans (non-black . . . more
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May 22, 2006 03:58 AM EDT --
November 22, 1963. 12:30 p.m., Central Time, Dealey Plaza.
The Presidential car, an open-top, 1961 Lincoln Continental, reached the Texas School Book Depository. The Presidential car was 65 feet . . . more
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March 28, 2007 12:02 AM EDT --
I started 2007 on a interesting note. I got laid off from my job, becoming part of the Bush Administration's growing unemployment numbers, but my underemployment was short-lived. I need that 9 to 5 . . . more
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December 04, 2007 11:57 AM EST --
My friends, check out this interview with Naomi Wolfe, and tell me what you think of the possibility that we may be blindly inching toward dictatorship right here in the homeland.
http://www.buzzflash.com/articles/interviews/ . . . more
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October 03, 2007 06:38 PM EDT --
At the end of WWII nazis fleeing the soviet union ran headlong to surreder en masse to whatever American they could find. Some NMazis had already fled with secret technologies. In many . . . more
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June 27, 2007 12:00 PM EDT --
It’s 11:45, and I’m beginning to feel uneasy. My concern is one that our “hunt-and-gather” ancestors would call modern and jaded, but I imagine it haunts many a Working . . . more
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June 29, 2007 04:06 PM EDT --
Sorry I didn’t post yesterday, but I was catching-up with my Forearm. It’s not hard to see why I’d choose the . . . more
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September 26, 2007 01:58 PM EDT --
This article is in response to a question posed on August 17th by Troy Stouffer, who publishes regularly on Gather under the moniker, Cacoethes Scribendi. In an article dated Mr. Stouffer asked, . . . more
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March 20, 2007 06:20 PM EDT --
Jeremiah O’Sullivan was dean of Marquette’s College of Journalism in the 1950s, when I was a student there. All those who studied under him and the faculty members called him simply, “the . . . more
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April 12, 2008 01:25 PM EDT --
I hope you'll take the time to fill yourselves in on the real meaning behind the hot-button quotes with which the Fox network and other fascist media in this country have tried to make it . . . more
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