Word: bayards
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lincoln, through Bayard Taylor, the U.S. minister to St. Petersburg, in 1862 sought and obtained a pledge of Russian support for the Union, should either Britain or France intervene on the side of the South. The Russians actually dispatched warships to the U.S. to demonstrate their support...
Soul Courses. This approach was condemned last week by Bayard Rustin, one of the most distinguished of moderate black leaders. "Stop capitulating to the stupid demands of Negro students," Rustin pleaded. The students are "suffering from the shock of integration and are looking for an easy way out of their problems. The easy way out is to let them have black courses and their own dormitories and give them degrees. But what in hell are soul courses worth in the real world? No one gives a damn if you've taken soul courses. They want to know...
...crumbling, inadequate public school?by a Jewish teacher. More often than not, the hated neighborhood welfare center, to the black a symbol of indifferent, domineering white bureaucracy, is staffed by Jewish social workers. "If you happen to be an uneducated, poorly trained Negro living in the ghetto," says Bayard Rustin, executive director of the A. Philip Randolph Institute, "you see only four kinds of white people?the policeman, the businessman, the teacher and the welfare worker. In many cities, three of those four are Jewish...
...argues Bayard Rustin, is the victim of the Negro's love-hate syndrome; the black man tends to vent his anger and frustration on those who have helped him most. The Jew has contributed far more to the cause of civil rights than the gentile. Partly, Jewish liberalism toward the Negro was a product of self-interest: if the Negro could be repressed, then so could Jews. But the Jewish willingness to help others also stems from the abiding generosity of the Hebrew religious tradition?though less well-off Jews sometimes feel far too threatened to share such altruistic sentiments...
...adverse reaction to Agnew, who Nixon had assumed would be the least controversial of running mates. "I doubt that even the closest friends of Spiro Agnew," said a Rockefeller aide, "would suggest that he is qualified to be President." "It's the same old tricky Dicky," complained Bayard Rustin, a leader of black moderates. J. Earl Bearing, a Negro member of Nixon's advisory council on crime, admitted that even he was disturbed by Agnew's billy-club approach to civil disorders...