The term 'Uncle Tom' was an ignorant term, but that is how we felt.
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Others called me 'Uncle Tom' and worse, and I had a few run-ins with black soldiers, but I was satisfied.
Since the 1950s, Armstrong had been dealing with accusations of being an "Uncle Tom" - of subserviently providing entertainment for white America.
Yet when he worked to keep white liberals in the civil-rights coalition, Rustin was labelled an Uncle Tom by younger, less patient blacks.
The first is about how the Greek bailout might not actually work even if the IMF and the ECB, Uncle Tom Cobbleigh and all sign up to it.
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Turner also notes that the song makes an appearance in Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel Uncle Tom's Cabin, which came to be embraced by abolitionist forces as an indictment of plantation life and slavery.
Animosity to Mr Brown is not as violent as it is in England, where his Scottishness magnifies the spite (though for some in Glasgow he is insufficiently Scottish, a sort of Celtic Uncle Tom).
That left two others--cotrustees Eisenberg and Matthew's uncle Tom--to order the January 1995 sale of fractional interests in a downtown Chicago office property, an 860-acre farm near Chicago, a cementmaking partnership and a lumber company.
Except for Mr. Maghuyop's performance and the "Uncle Tom's Cabin" ballet, you won't be all that surprised by anything in Walnut Street's "The King and I, " but that won't stop you from going home with a smile on your face.
" Though Mr. Robbins's dance version of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" was one of the most memorable pieces of choreography ever created for the Broadway stage, Mr. Robin's miniature ballet is a lovely piece of work in its own right, and I liked his "Shall We Dance?
Cooke's expedition was following in the footsteps--literally--of her late uncle, legendary oilman Tom Slick.
Over 25 years my dad and uncle, Louis and Tom Borders, expanded their vision of providing high quality service, attention to the customer and the best technology to book selling.
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In the mid-1990s, Tom, his uncle Robert and the family's attorney Marshall Eisenberg made extensive changes to the holdings in trust accounts that benefit Liesel and her brother, Matthew.
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