Word: 1960s
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Cleaver worked with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee before joining the Black Panthers in the late 1960s, serving as one of the party's highest-ranking female members...
Kilson, who in the 1960s became the first Black tenured professor at Harvard, advised the leaders of the Black Students Association [BSA] that they should be "formulating week-by-week and month-by-month numerous projects to assist that long-haul task of outfitting the Black poor and underclass youth to read adequately, to manage math, to replace vulgarity with beauty, [and] to overcome hypermacho, anarchic and anti-humanistic values and personal identities...
...other urban areas across the country, changing neighborhood patterns led to some racial tensions in Riverside during the 1960s...
...classic economic warfare, only from the top down instead of from the bottom up. American politics can be seen-crudely, perhaps deplorably, but not inaccurately-as a battle between the poor and the rich for the allegiance of the middle class. Call it empathy vs. aspiration. In the 1960s the middle class joined hands with the poor. Since 1980 it has seen its class interest as lying more with the rich...
Even more remarkable is Poland's renewed interest in Judaism, despite the fact that very few Jews still live there. Only 300,000 Polish Jews out of a prewar population of 3.5 million survived the Holocaust, and nearly all of those emigrated in the 1960s under pressure from the communist government. Barely 5,000 remain. Yet kosher food, Yiddish theater and Jewish-history studies are becoming more popular...