Word: blackly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What seems to be happening is that, more and more, the American black is reaching out for new and less violent tools to achieve his aims. This does not mean that a restless teen-ager with rock or rifle or a tactless and brutal policeman cannot still ignite a mob in any ghetto. But rioting is no longer the black community's instant, reflex response. Through a new alchemy of awareness, the word has passed on what Malcolm X called "the wire," the black grapevine: "Cool it." The internal sanctions of the ghetto now work against spontaneous combustion...
...black pride, and the efforts it has inspired, should be ultimately thwarted, the present mood could suddenly change, and all the old bitterness and violence could come back redoubled by a new sense of failure. If whites in industry, in labor unions, in government, indeed everywhere, decided that the relative calm in the ghetto meant that they could relax rather than press ahead with fresh help, welcoming the blacks into all parts of American society, then the result could be racial chaos far worse than any the U.S. has yet known...
Thus, for the first time since his black Oldsmobile tumbled off the Dike Bridge on Chappaquiddick seven weeks ago, Kennedy gained a measure of legal control over the case that, in the midst of his own silences and the elaborate speculations of practically everyone else, had been careering toward what he feared would be, in effect, an officially sanctioned trial by rumor...
That time is now past, and there is no doubt that its passing will adversely affect Communist morale. Ho was an impressive figure?the only truly national leader that Viet Nam has produced in modern times?and he will be missed.' In Hanoi, faces were somber and black bands of mourning appeared on thousands of sleeves. A crowd formed before Ba Dinh Congress Hall, where his body lies in state. The clandestine Viet Cong Radio, echoing Hanoi broadcasts, reported that the new wave of attacks in the South last week had been launched "to change sorrow into a revolutionary...
...effect was electric. In a climax to three days of acrimonious debate at the Episcopal Church's Special General Convention, the delegates reversed an earlier decision and voted (404 to 222) to provide $200,000 to the moderate National Committee of Black Churchmen. In taking the action, delegates knew that the money was intended eventually to reach the coffers of James Forman's Black Economic Development Conference. The Episcopal Church thus became the first major denomination to recognize-however indirectly-the "reparation" demands enunciated in Forman's Black Manifesto (TIME, May 16). Even this did not quite...