Word: blocs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Counter-Bloc. That was true enough. Yet King had himself helped solidify the white vote by stumping the state to rally Negro support for State Attorney General Richmond Flowers, a fairly recent convert to racial moderation, who had gone all out for the Negro vote. As expected, the great majority of Negroes cast their ballots for Flowers. But the specter of a black-bloc vote effectively polarized the whites, whose unexpectedly unified vote sent Lurleen Wallace soaring ahead of Flowers and all eight other opponents. Without the open threat of a monolithic black ballot, white Alabamians' votes...
...going to follow the law. Every individual is entitled to, and shall gain, equal opportunities." Refreshing as those words might have been to newly enfranchised Negroes, they were heresy to Alabama's old-line whites. And when Martin Luther King began promoting a GROW-WITH-FLOWERS bloc vote among Negroes, Lurleen began to look like Joan of Arc to anxious white supremacists...
...releasing the bill, the President, together with Vice President Hubert Humphrey and Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach, went over it with a group of Negro leaders. Among them was Martin Luther King, who left shortly afterward for a barnstorming tour of Alabama, where he urged Negroes to vote as a bloc in this week's Democratic primary-in which, thanks to the 1964 and 1965 civil rights bills, their ballots had become a major factor...
...Outside, it means that anyone interested in rock simply has no WHRB members don't find this disturbing in the least. "I'm not especially concerned--I'd rather do a good job than have University listeners," says Webb. Others do care--slightly. But there is no significant "rock bloc" as there are folk, jazz, or CM (classical) blocs. A recent effort of one member, for example, to have an OBG (oldies but goodies) rock orgy was voted down in a members' poll...
...representative of the working class to join with his Socialist Unity Party in bringing about German reunification. Each year the Social Democrats had refused to answer the detested Ulbricht-until this year. Reflecting West Germany's new and more flexible attitude toward the Communist bloc, the Social Democrats last month fired back a reply that demanded unrestricted travel between the two Germanys, increased cultural contacts, and debates between Eastern and Western politicians to explore the possibilities of reunification...