Word: chantings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...unless the Negro Revolution follows the classic pattern and devours the very men who did most to set it in motion, replacing them with extremist firebrands. In the wretched Negro slums, the more moderate Negro leaders pack no clout with the young buckoes who toss Molotov cocktails and chant murderous antiwhite slogans. "A black man today," insists one Black Power advocate, "is either a radical or an Uncle Tom." In fact, only a fraction of America's 22 million Negroes falls into either category. What worries the moderates is that increasing numbers of ghetto dwellers seem more susceptible than...
...edict, all students are expected to engage in factory work, farming and military affairs, and also consume heavy doses of the works of Mao; in those primary and secondary schools that are open, instruction is limited to one to two hours of morning classes, during which pupils read, chant, sing and dance the messages of Chairman...
...Want Reagan!" Though Goldwater was their hero, California's Ronald Reagan was obviously their new political sex symbol. As Reagan entered the cavernous Omaha Sports Arena for the final night's speechmaking, applause quickly turned into a fevered five-minute chant of "We want Reagan! We want Reagan!" The Governor's speech, a pallid recitation of his administration's accomplishments contrasted with the "non-accomplishments" of the Johnson Administration, was interrupted more than 20 times for further applause, and as he left the hall, the delegates resumed their chant: "We want Reagan! We want Reagan...
...dawn's early light, the chant echoed through the streets of Enugu, the capital of Eastern Nigeria. Because Nigeria has been a troubled land of late, the word of its demise was not a total surprise-although perhaps premature. But who were the Biafrans...
Shouting, dancing Negroes weaved wildly through six downtown blocks of Gary, Ind., blocking the city's major north-south artery for nearly four hours. It was not a riot but a rip-roaring victory celebration; their chant was not "Black power!" but "We beat the machine!" Through the nonincendiary power of the ballot box, Gary's Negroes had ousted the corruption-ridden regime of Mayor A. Martin Katz (TIME, April 29, 1966) and nominated one of their own race as the Democratic mayoral candidate in next November's general election. With their support, Richard Hatcher...