Word: citizenship
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...kept waiting 15 months for its money while the U.S. House of Representatives-informed by the Foreign Affairs Committee that Alaska's bountiful resources were worthless and the land itself "unfit for civilized men"-overcame its feeling that the price was excessive. Instead of the full rights of citizenship promised by the U.S., the Russians in Alaska got military occupation by U.S. troops, who looted their churches and raped their women. For the next 17 years, Alaska was operated as a U.S. customs district, without government or laws. By then, the evidence of Russia's 126 years...
...haired Leander Perez, segregationist boss of Louisiana's Plaquemines Parish, gave the Senate Judiciary Committee the lowdown on what Negroes are really like. "They are of immoral character," drawled the Democratic politician. Their only interest is "to get welfare checks," he said. "They are a low type of citizenship...
...Nakasa was denied a passport by the South African government which would have enabled him to arrive at the University in time to accept a Nieman Fellowship. Instead, he was given an exit permit, allowing him to come (he arrived two months late), but at the expense of his citizenship. Should he try to return to South Africa, Nakasa faces trial and up to three years' imprisonment--all because of his journalistic success...
Albert L. Maher '62-2, one of the leaders of the group said last night that the Harlem conflict is a "struggle for economic citizenship against the Federal government and the political system...
Despite great gains in the past decade, the American Negro is still often denied the most basic right of citizenship under constitutional government -the right to vote...