Word: backlash
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Here in the town where the party was founded and from which the Society took its name, it said in a statement that a Goldwater candidacy "must invariably exploit the white backlash to the civil rights movement...
...front-running candidate for our presidential nomination has embarrassed our party by announcing that people who are poor have only their stupidity or their laziness to blame. This is a slander on the thousands of good Americans who through no fault of their own have been caught in the backlash of our urbanized, industrialized, fast-moving society. There is a need for the party of Lincoln to remember that 'there but for the grace of God go I.' But heaven help us if we go before the American people with the naive belief that every poverty-stricken family...
...Wallace [May 29] were the most precise I have seen. Instead of appealing to the intelligence of the voters (the logical way to combat stupidity), Brewster relied solely on a name-calling campaign until it was too late. Surely the Maryland primary will not cause concern about the "Northern backlash...
...example, concluded that it would not take any responsibility for desegregating its schools, and made its decision stick in the courts; the U.S. Supreme Court a fortnight ago turned down a chacne to hear the case. Chicago, Boston and Philadelphia are bogged down for reasons that range from white backlash to a school-board inertia. New York City's Board of Education hesitantly advanced and then igmoniniously cut back a proposal for big-scale pairing of mostly white and mostly Negro schools, which implied bussing many children back and forth...
...that, civil rights forces did have cause for concern, for the Indiana voting showed the so-called white "backlash" still in evidence. Wallace actually carried populous Lake County, which includes industrial, heavily unionized Gary, Hammond and East Chicago. He also won in adjacent Porter County, a recently developed steel center that has been afflicted with racial conflict. If the backlash in such areas continues through November, it could cause serious trouble for the national Democratic ticket...