Word: blackly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sense been a full-scale upheaval like the French Revolution. Yet it can be said that in the relatively cool American summer of 1969, a Thermidor convalescence from the long fever of racial tumult seems to be under way. There has been no wholesale rioting in the black ghettos of the U.S. since the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. in April 1968. By a Department of Justice count, the number of racial disturbances of all sizes has fallen off sharply in 1969 from the two previous summers (see chart, next page). The 1965 holocaust of Watts left 34 dead...
...perhaps only coincidence that none of the cities inoculated by major riot have yet suffered a second big outbreak; in the curious chemistry of violence, they seem to have achieved at least a temporary kind of immunization. No one pretends that the problems of the nation's blacks have been solved, and no one yet dares predict what may come after the Thermidor pause is over.* But governments and ghettos alike have become more sophisticated and skillful at handling their common difficulties. Expressing a widespread view, Jack Meltzer, director of the University of Chicago Center for Urban Studies, observes...
There are good reasons for guarded hope. Many new elements, some constructive, some negative, explain the relative quiescence of the black ghetto this summer. Among them...
...SENSE OF RESPONSIBILITY has emerged within the black community. The big outbursts starting with Harlem, 1964, were riots of rising expectations, of frenzy at the gap between reality and the promise of the Civil Rights Acts. The riots showed blacks they were not impotent, but also that their best hopes resided in themselves, not in the white man's City Hall or in Washington. Explains Junius Williams, 25, black founder of the Newark Area Planning Association: "The rebellion kicked off something in a lot of people's minds. We've got power, they said...
...building has begun. There is a visible push for more education; more blacks than ever before are now in college, and more than 60% of male black students now finish high school. Around the land, Black Panthers have started ghetto clinics and breakfast and lunch programs for schoolchildren-not without criticism from more moderate blacks. Professor Barbara Solomon of the University of Southern California denounces the Panthers' Los Angeles Freedom School as "brainwashing children to hate the white...