Word: blacks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...then, it is cold and wet on Omaha. From the Channel, the north wind knifes in, and the beach is desolate except for the occasional lonely figure poking for shellfish. As the tide recedes, the ugly debris of war emerges: a black shape here, a jagged something there. The silence is awesome...
...vast majority of Denver's elementary schools are de facto segregated. Almost two-thirds of the white pupils attend schools that are more than 85% white; in predominantly black schools, the pupils are rapidly falling behind in their studies. Goaded by the murder of Martin Luther King last year, the Denver school board sought a drastic remedy: make each Denver school reflect the overall ethnic composition of the city's 96,000 pupils-65% white, 20% Mexican-American and 15% Negro...
...vote of 5 to 2, the board approved a bussing plan, due to start next fall, that would have sent more than 500 whites to predominantly black schools and guaranteed that no minority-area school would be less than 70% white. The plan was less than satisfactory to the Rev. Jesse R. Wagner, co-chairman of a black-white group called Citizens for One Community that wanted fuller integration. Still, he worked hard for the bussing scheme-in contrast to Denver's black separatists, who told Wagner, in effect: "Do your thing...
...future. As a result, bussing is highly unlikely in Denver. Said Jesse Wagner: "The dream is over. The white majority is not willing to take on the commitment and make our country one." Unfortunately, Denver's whites have also strengthened the city's black separatists...
What came next was lines a block long. Curious (Yellow) picked up enough long green to gross $86,704 in its first week. What also came next was bomb threats and scalpers who sold $2.50 tickets for $10. The least predictable assault came from the Black Mothers for Liberty, a militant group who objected to the film's reference to Martin Luther King. Mayor James Tate capped the controversy by knocking the audience. "Many of the people who are standing in line," he fumed, "are degenerates." Actually, some are Pinkerton men scanning the ID cards of 17-year-olds...