Word: blacks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Afro statements said that Harvard "has long allowed racism in its rankest and most insidious forms to systematically and ruthlessly prevent black men from working in its employ...
After the demonstrators were finally driven away from the Federal Triangle area, many regrouped to lead an assault on the White House, Several thousand militants ran past two police checkpoints before they were finally stopped within a block of the White mansion's high black gates...
...incumbent, and what is less well known is that he frequently votes law-and-order. But his conservatism was not made an issue in his campaign, and he had, in fact, deliberately played up his sympathy with Roxbury in order to maximize his drawing power in the black community. Since the blacks account for only 15 per cent of Boston's electorate, they alone could not put him in office, and what is politically incredible is the support he found in lily-white precincts where Hicks coasted to victory. For example, in Allston, hardly expected to be an Atkins stronghold...
...Black participation was sparse, but several blacks spoke to the rally, including Mrs. Corretta Scott King; Phil Hutchins, former officer of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee: George Wiley, head of the National Welfare Rights Organization; and Dick Gregory...
...Signs were rife with references to Spiro Agnew and the Silent Majority: "Effetism in Defense of Liberty is No Vice." "Tyranny Has Always Depended On a Silent Majority." "Keep Spiro Agnew in the Silent Majority." and "What Plan, Mr. President?" Several people carried large NLF flags and red and black banners. Many other marchers carried small American flags...