Word: 1960s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Whenever I have a choice, I buy Exxon gasoline. It started when my family drove through the Deep South to visit relatives during the early 1960s and found that service stations affiliated with Esso, now Exxon, were less likely than other chains to have separate "white" and "colored" rest rooms. Whether that was the result of enlightened company policy or fortunate happenstance, I don't know, and neither do the Exxon representatives I asked about it last week. But that gesture to its black customers made me a lifelong supporter. So it's a no-brainer for me to help...
Wolfson compared the fight for same-sex marriages to the struggle in the 1960s legalize inter-racial marriages...
...entire program stemmed from the Native American self-determination movement of the 1960s and '70s. The movement culminated in the 1975 Self-Determination Act, which Begay says allocated more funding for Native American students and made it the reservations' mandate for every youth to go to college...
Garth M. Bray, director of neurology at Montreal General Hospital, has been a personal friend of Martin's since they did their residency together in the 1960s...
...department's support for Clinton does not necessarily indicate its faculty are true liberals, Mansfield says, adding that passions in the department have been cooling since the late 1960s...