Word: accept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Negro, I object to James Baldwin's being used as a symbol of Negro hopes and aspirations. Human problems develop because of a general refusal to accept individual responsibility. Every person must fight his own private battle; search his own soul; practice the selfish principles embodied in the Golden Rule...
...hair dresser or caterer. Traditionally no young Negro who has stayed in this community has been permitted to hold a professional job, in the white man's sense of the word. As a consequence the most ambitious young people develop skills either in positions where white men will accept them, such as catering; or where they can attract a great deal of fairly high priced Negro business, such as directing funerals; or in positions where they can gain their community's unquestioning respect, such as pastoring in a Negro Church or teaching in the Negro High School...
...South: Georgia, Kentucky, North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee. In none of these states is wheat nearly as important as cotton and tobacco. Both of these crops have long operated under high-support, strict-control programs, and Southern farmers have become so fond of the supports they will accept almost all controls...
...other legal decisions against Alabama segregation were not enough, a U.S. district court in Birmingham ruled that the University of Alabama must accept two Negro applicants for the beginning of the summer session starting June 10. One is a girl, Vivian J. Malone, 20, who plans to go to the main university campus at Tuscaloosa. The other is David M. McGlathery, 26, a mathematician who had petitioned for postgraduate study at the university's Huntsville branch. Alabama's Governor George Wallace immediately announced that the Negroes would get into either Tuscaloosa or Huntsville only by walking over...
...Iran and, when it collapsed, was for twelve years in exile in the Soviet Union. The younger brother of the ruling sheik of the Barzan tribe, Barzani denies he is a Communist, but echoes other Kurdish leaders who say that if war breaks out again the Kurds will "accept all the help we can get from anyone"-Russians included...