Word: backlash
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Gains from white "backlash" seem to go almost entirely to Republicans. Last fall Republicans narrowed Democratic majorities sharply by a go-slow attitude on civil rights. Anti-Negro voters have little trust in the party that wins a large majority of Negro votes...
...Backlash. In general, housing is still the Negro's toughest barrier. Here and there-for example, in Denver's Park Hill residential section, where Negro home buying at first created flurries of panic-colored families have been able to move into white sections with little trouble. But the major metropolitan areas of Chicago, New York...
...white counterattack in California reflects one natural consequence of the Negro's militant position: a backlash reaction, derived from the notion that "the Negro is pushing too far, too fast," and that he is also threatening the unskilled white man's job security. James P. Mitchell, Eisenhower's onetime Labor Secretary, now San Francisco's human-relations coordinator and a friend of the Negro feels that "militancy could quite easily antagonize important people who are now prepared or preparing to do something. What Negroes have to remember is something they tend to forget: that they...
Snows & Saints. In poetry, Evgeny Evtushenko, 30, is still the major voice, and has taken the brunt of the backlash that followed his first outspoken poems. But nowadays Evtushenko's reputation is being matched by that of Andrei Voznesensky, 30, more gifted and only slightly less flamboyant ex-student of architecture. Voznesensky's newest volume of verse will appear in the U.S. in translation this spring...
...Boston the storm, a combination of a two-day northeaster and the backlash from Hurricane Daisy, left a scene of havoc and destruction...