Word: blackly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Short-Lived Peace. Cairo's latest troubles began earlier this year when the Rev. Gerald Montroy, a white Catholic priest, arrived in town from East St. Louis and took up his duties in the heart of a black neighborhood. He drew together the local N.A.A.C.P., a cooperative association and a couple of street gangs, and with the Rev. Charles Koen, a local black minister, formed the United Front...
...coalition charged intimidation of the black community by the "White Hats," a 600-member vigilante outfit formed and deputized during the 1967 disturbances. It also presented city officials with a list of seven demands, including appointment of a black police chief and assistant fire chief and a near equal black-white ratio in all city jobs. The demands and a boycott used to dramatize them touched off a rash of snipings, which ended only after Illinois Governor Richard Ogilvie sent in National Guardsmen to keep the peace...
Headed for Anarchy. Already high, tensions exploded when the City Council forbade assemblies of more than two persons anywhere in town. United Front lawyers went before a federal district court seeking an injunction to strike down the ordinance, and scores of blacks gathered at Montroy's church for a march on police headquarters. When club-wielding state and local police drove them back into the all-Negro Pyramid Courts housing project, weapons appeared in black and white hands, and Cairo seemed headed for anarchy...
...first day at prep school than of a world body confronted with an awesome catalogue of crises. Delegates greeted one another cheerfully, applauded when the Swaziland delegates marched barefoot to their seats wearing brilliant red printed togas and feathers in their hair and openly ogled Mrs. Shirley Temple Black as she took her place for the first time with the U.S. delegation...
...when both the President and Secretary of State were out of the country, she even filled in briefly as her nation's chief executive. Much of her work at the U.N. has involved the transformation of former colonial states into independent countries. Miss Brooks can view black Africa's yearning for uhuru, or independence, from a unique position. She is a leading figure in the continent's oldest republic -founded in 1847 by black freedmen from the U.S. She also claims descent from a back-country tribe rather than from one of Liberia's elite founding...