Word: bullocks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Angeles, two Negro civil rights workers, Robert Hall and Lou Smith, borrowed $1,000 to launch a job-training project. To provide the facilities, they started a service station, a clothing shop, and a firm that sells African-style garments to The May Co. and Bullock's department stores. "We want to create economic black power," says Hall, describing his plans to share profits with his 82 employees. "We want the people of the community to own everything we start...
...University of Texas, must be to "avoid racism in reverse-there has to be intellectual integrity behind the move." Although Texas has fewer than 200 Negro students, a petition for a Negro history course drew 1,800 student signers. The course will be taught by Sociologist-Historian Henry Allen Bullock. He intends to examine the Negro's origin in Africa and the clashes of African and European cultures, study the impact of the slave trade on the Caribbean and the U.S. South, and trace the development of segregation...
There are, in other words, two kinds of poverty: physical and psychological. Both differ from anything in the American experience in that they are increasingly institutionalized, nearly to the point of becoming endemic. Poverty in the past, as U.C.L.A. Economist Paul Bullock notes, was "a temporary, perhaps one-generation, condition through which particular groups passed as they adjusted to the economic and cultural requirements of American capitalism." During the Depression, virtually an entire nation felt the pangs of penury. Even during good times, as a 1948 Gallup poll, which classified 50% of Americans as "poor or on relief," indicated, plenty...
Says Economist Bullock: "It simply doesn't make good sense economically to give up hustling pot in order to concentrate on a car-wash or service-station job. As long as the rewards of welfare dependency or hustling exceed the income from a job, the ghetto resident is merely obeying the sacrosanct American principle of maximizing his economic gains. This fact, of course, deeply offends those middle-class Americans who are vigorously pursuing these same goals...
...three winners are Bernard Bailyn, Winthrop Professor of History, for The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution; Henry Allen Bullock of Texas Southern University for A History of Negro Education in the South from 1619 to the Present; and Richard L. Bushman '53 of Brigham Young University for From Puritan to Yankee: Character and the Social Order in Connecticut...