It met a serious rebuff in New Orleans, where the two schools selected for the first moves toward integration were boycotted by white parents.

As we have already seen in the first chapter, bumblebees are bigger, hairier, and much more colorful than honeybees, exhibiting various combinations of black, yellow, white and orange.

For example, he cites the following data from two studies on job satisfaction: in the first study, 85 per cent of professionals and executives, 64 per cent of white collar people, and 41 per cent of factory workers expressed satisfaction with their jobs ; ;

The first major change was that of providing wholewheat bread instead of white bread.

At first the kitchen help was tolerant, but ordered their own supply of white bread for themselves.

The first cattle the Injuns saw under the white man's control were the ox teams of the early freighters.

Alec's first impression of the lobby was gloomy, Victorian dignity -- black walnut and red plush, a black and white tiled floor, and Persian rugs.

Eight men were tried together in U.S. District Court in Anniston, Ala., on charges of interfering with interstate transportation and conspiracy growing out of a white mob's attack on a Greyhound bus carrying the first of the Freedom Riders.

When first informed he disbelieved the crow and turned all crows black ( where they were previously white ) as a punishment for spreading untruths.

At first, the falcon crest logo was also put on the jersey sleeves, but it was replaced by a red and white stripe pattern four years later.

In the 1830s Sweeney became the first white man to play the banjo on stage.

Blue shorts were retained, but the socks were for the first time red, with a white flash.

Managed by Harry Wright, Cincinnati adopted a uniform with white knickers and red stockings, and earned the famous nickname, a year or two before hiring the first fully professional team in 1869.

The white North Carolina performer Arthel " Doc " Watson credited listening to Jefferson's recordings as his first exposure to the blues, which would powerfully influence his own style.

Commentators have questioned whether Obama, who was elected the first black President of the United States, is black enough, as his mother was white American, and his father was a black Kenyan immigrant.

The final product was the first clear, or " white " rum in the world.

Agüero ( a white man ) and Sánchez ( a mulatto ) were both executed, becoming the first popular martyrs of the Cuban independence movement.

America's first great white faced clown was stage star George " G. L.

Like many other NFL teams located in temperate climates, the Panthers traditionally wear their white jerseys at home during the first half of the season — forcing opponents to wear their dark ones under the warm autumns in Charlotte.

The colours had been chosen by the group of boys who had founded Charlton Athletic in 1905 after having to play their first matches in the borrowed kits of their local rivals Woolwich Arsenal, who also played in red and white.

The first 1541 drives produced in 1982 had a label on the front reading VIC-1541 and had a white case to match the VIC-20.

Although first introduced by Hebert Candies in 1955, Mars, Incorporated was the first to produce white chocolate within the United States.

In 1715 the French established their first permanent settlements in Dominica following a revolt of " poor white " smallholders in the north of Martinique, known as La Gaoulé, which caused an exodus of them to southern Dominica.

This created a rare game in which neither team wore a white jersey and the first time the Cowboys wore the alternative uniform as a visiting team.

Joseph Brown continued in business by himself, quickly rebuilding the establishment which had been lost in the fire and beginning those first steps which were to establish him as a pioneer in raising the standards of accuracy of machine shop practice throughout the world.

An early pioneer of radio astronomy was Grote Reber, an amateur astronomer who constructed the first purpose built radio telescope in the late 1930s to follow up on the discovery of radio wavelength emissions from space by Karl Jansky.

Although he is sometimes regarded as among the first and most influential architects of Nordic modernism, a closer examination of the historical facts reveals that Aalto ( while a pioneer in Finland ) closely followed and had personal contacts with other pioneers in Sweden, in particular Gunnar Asplund and Sven Markelius.

A pioneer of aeronautical engineering, he is credited as the first person to separate the forces of lift and drag which are in effect on any flight vehicle,

* Daniel Boone ( November 2, 1734 October 22 – September 26, 1820 ) was an American pioneer, explorer, and frontiersman whose frontier exploits made him one of the first folk heroes of the United States.

In 1927 welding pioneer Stefan Bryła designed the first welded road bridge in the world, which was later built across the river Słudwia Maurzyce near Łowicz, Poland in 1929.

Social work pioneer and journal editor Paul Kellogg offered Eastman her first job, investigating labor conditions for The Pittsburgh Survey sponsored by the Russell Sage Foundation.

The first person to provide evidence and infer the presence of dark matter was Dutch astronomer Jan Oort, a pioneer in radio astronomy, in 1932.

Sapir was also a pioneer in Yiddish studies ( his first language ) in the United States ( cf.

Biogeographer Alexander von Humbolt ( 1769 – 1859 ) was an early pioneer in ecological thinking and was among the first to recognize ecological gradients, where species are replaced or altered in form along environmental gradients, such as a cline forming along a rise in elevation.

At Gaumont, pioneer Alice Guy Blaché ( M. Gaumont's former secretary ) was made head of production and oversaw about 400 films, from her first, La Fée aux Choux, in 1896, through 1906.

Another pioneer of cinema was Bolesław Matuszewski, who became one of the first filmmakers working for the Lumière company-and the official " cinematographer " of the Russian tsars in 1897.

Peter Greenaway was an early pioneer of the use of computer generated imagery blended with filmed footage and was also one of the first directors to film entirely on high definition video for a cinema release.

Its main competitors were the Bélinograf by Édouard Belin first, then since the 1930s the Hellschreiber, invented in 1929 by German inventor Rudolf Hell, a pioneer in mechanical image scanning and transmission.

There he was invited to head Saint Paul's College, a pioneer seminary for the education of secular priests that became the first jesuit headquarters in Asia, but soon departed, having spent the following three years in India.

The first electric guitarist of note to use a seven-string guitar was jazz guitarist George Van Eps, who was a pioneer of this instrument.

A pioneer in the field, she was one of the first programmers of the Harvard Mark I computer, and developed the first compiler for a computer programming language.

The first depictions of supernatural events appear in several of the silent shorts created by the film pioneer Georges Méliès in the late 1890s, the best known being Le Manoir du diable ( aka, The Haunted Castle, 1896 ) which is sometimes credited as being the first horror film.

The first harpist known to play jazz was Casper Reardon, a pioneer in the world of " hot " music.

The aesthetic and ethical type found expression in the transcendentalism, humanitarianism, and romanticism of the first part of the nineteenth century, the economic type in the pioneer life of the West during the same period, but more favorably after the Civil War.

It was home to the first house built in Lansing in 1843 by pioneer James Seymour and his family.

Raymond Davis Jr. and Masatoshi Koshiba were jointly awarded the 2002 Nobel Prize in Physics ; Davis for his pioneer work on cosmic neutrinos and Koshiba for the first real time observation of supernova neutrinos.

Grace Hopper, was one of the first programmers of the Harvard Mark I computer, a pioneer in the field, developed the first compiler, around 1952, for a computer programming language.