Word: blacking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...surveys also show that whites are much more likely to support integration in theory than specific governmental steps to achieve it. A Common Destiny views discrepancies like these as "important signs of continuing resistance to full equality of black Americans: principles of equality are endorsed less when social contact is close, of long duration, or frequent." Put colloquially, the prevalent white attitude is "Yeah, I'm for integration, but not in my neighborhood...
...result of the past decade's stagnation is that many whites and blacks have given up on integration as a goal that can be achieved or that is even entirely desirable. "To the extent that white folks had a notion of integration, it meant that more and more black folks would become more like us," says white historian David Garrow, a biographer of Martin Luther King Jr. This political climate has left many black leaders disheartened. "We don't have a clue on how to proceed," says Eleanor Holmes Norton, a top civil rights official in the Carter Administration...
...nearly two years, policeman David A. Magnusson, 27, has patrolled Miami's black Overtown ghetto, where rioting broke out last winter after the shooting of a black motorcyclist by a Hispanic officer. He is a police representative on the panel that is investigating that outburst...
Tinder-dry jack pines, white and black spruce, poplar and birch trees exploded in the heat as more than 3 million acres of Canadian timberland went up in smoke during the past two weeks. Some 4,400 fire fighters battled 560 lightning-ignited fires that swept across northern Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Ontario. "The whole north is virtually blowing up on us," sighed Albert Driedger, Manitoba's minister for emergency services. With high winds pushing dense smoke toward Indian reservations, provincial premier Gary Filmon declared a state of emergency...
...surface on its tail. There is no mistaking this magic. The fish explodes again, up through a silver shower of water, shaking its head in an effort to throw the hook. You notice the color. It is gorgeous, almost surreal. The trout's meaty flanks sport outrageous spots of black and orange, horizontal streaks of silver and red. The line rips through the water, sending signals directly to your pounding heart. Your ears ring...