Word: blacks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...went through the garage of an unpretentious apartment building near the heart of Havana, went up six flights in a tiny elevator, and knocked on a heavy door. He was scrutinized through a two-way mirror, then admitted into the presence of Eldridge Cleaver-Black Panther leader, author and, for the past six months, one of America's most mysterious fugitives...
...find my apartment?" asked Cleaver, visibly startled. "Who told you I lived here?" The answers remained the secret of James Pringle, 31, Havana correspondent for Reuters. Pringle had apparently acted on a tip from someone close to or in Havana's small Black Panther exile colony...
...Fire Next Time, James Baldwin warned in 1963, and history seemed bent on rewriting the admonition to "a bigger fire next summer." Since Harlem ignited in 1964 and Watts a year later, blacks and whites have shared a fear of each approaching riot season. Can this year be different? Cautiously, with an almost superstitious anxiety that expressions of hope may tempt fate, black and white leaders across the nation look for a better summer...
Qualified Confidence. One factor accounting for this qualified confidence is the growing eagerness of Negro communities themselves to prevent violence. Except for a tiny minority of black anarchists, Negroes are increasingly aware of the suicidal aspect of ravaging their own neighborhoods. In Newark last week, after the fatal shooting of a black youth by a black policeman triggered a night of looting and property damage, an all-black volunteer patrol worked with the police to check violence. Wearing yellow armbands for identification, the volunteers preceded the police in their sweeps through ghetto streets, warning residents to obey...
...Plans. The police are moving in a number of ways to prevent violence. Programs of varying size and efficacy to improve police relations with the ghettos have been started in most cities. Los Angeles' hard-line chief Tom Reddin has left police work for television. Recruiting, particularly of black policemen, has been stepped up. Washington has added 500 men to its 3,600-member force and plans to add another 500. One hundred and forty of the latest 1,000 graduates of the New York Police Academy are black...