Word: arens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...relate specifically to every political situation. Priorities differ from community to community. If Stokely and I had tried to be any more specific or programatic we would have been relevant to a few specific places and irrelevant to the rest of the national black community. Books alone aren't the answer. That's why I spend so much time in Newark and Gary and Chicago's Third Congressional District...
...ways. Riots are an expression: They release frustrations and tensions. But they are functional only in the Fanonish sense of therapy. The problem with riots are first, that they get black people killed and secondly, that they are not politically instrumental. The same people who are involved in riots aren't around for political organization later. But how can I condemn riots when they happen to be the only form of dissent black people have to protest the estranged position they hold in this society...
Only one of the three other Warren chairs had been filled--by the late Mark DeWolfe Howe, Charles Warren Professor of the History of American Law--and finding a legal historian of Howe's stature (there aren't many legal historians in the first place) will be difficult. The remaining chairs are even more specialized--on the history of religion in America (though the divinity school may be close to announcing an appointment) and on the history of American education...
These fellowships, Fleming says, "mean that a person in American history has another opportunity to do research; and there aren't really many opportunities like...
...task of battling an incumbent President for his party's nomination. The traditional weapons of inter-party struggle are necessarily in the hands of President Johnson; to fight him therefore means to go outside the caucuses and start from the bottom up, to take Vietnam to voters who aren't now disaffected but could be. Eugene McCarthy has shown a willingness to adopt this approach, and a considerable flair...