DUBOIS: “Historian, essayist and civil rights leader who was the first African American to receive a doctorate at Harvard” GEORGE (VV)ATSON: “African American who received a posthumous Medal of Honor for valorous service in W.W. JAMES BALD(VV)IN: “Novelist and civil rights activist who wrote ‘Go Tell It on the Mountain’” (VV)ELLS: “Investigative journalist and civil rights pioneer who co-founded the N.A.A.C.P.” In this puzzle, the DOUBLE V (VV) is used to depict a W in the names of four historic Black Americans: Essentially, the campaign called out the hypocrisy that the United States expected its Black citizens to help defeat tyranny abroad while they were being subjected to racism at home. “The first V for victory over our enemies from without, the second V for victory over our enemies from within,” he wrote. Thompson, who worked at a factory in Wichita, Kan., that manufactured aircraft for the military. II-era campaign that helped usher in the civil rights movement,” and turns it into a wordplay “hint to four answers in this puzzle.” DOUBLE V, I learned by reading about the history of the campaign, stands for DOUBLE Victory. I learned something new from this puzzle. I’ve been in a MOSH pit exactly once, when I saw Flogging Molly in the ninth grade, and that was enough MOSHing for me! My favorite Twitter bot is the one that interacts with the Wordplay column most often: “Make a pit stop at a punk show?” is a wordplay clue for MOSH, the sort of pit in which a group of people slam-dance and jump wildly at a concert, often of the punk rock variety. An “Automated tweeter” is a BOT … for now! Twitter has gone back and forth in the past few weeks about whether the company is going to start charging fees for the useful, cute, informative and absurd automated tweeters, and for the time being they appear to be safe. “Some bunts, in brief” are SACS, short for sacrifice flies in baseball.ģ2A. We’ll get into the theme in a moment, but first let’s take a look at some of the clues that may have stymied some solvers. But my favorite thing about this puzzle is its theme, which celebrates the lives of four people whose selfless courage changed the course of U.S. Ziebarth’s puzzle is packed with fun clues, excellent long bonus (nontheme) entries and clean fill. WEDNESDAY PUZZLE - Congratulations to Sean Ziebarth, the constructor of today’s puzzle, on making his New York Times Crossword debut.
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