Word: citizenship
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hand, by pro-Biafrans, as propaganda attempts to lower the morale of those trapped in the secessionist kingdom. Now, however, the sordid truth of colossal human suffering is out. Biafra is not a viable dream without the oil rich territories of five million minorities coerced into the new citizenship...
...donate the hogs to a project dubbed "Operation Pork Chop," which distributed 60 tons of free meat to Cleveland's poor. He launched town-hall meetings to touch people for volunteer work at city hall. He bewitched the audience of Captain Cleveland, a kiddie video show advocating good citizenship. His biggest decision was to call the first planning session for a major, long-term effort to revitalize the city. By last week, his $1.5 billion "Cleveland: Now!" campaign was already a thundering popular success...
...committed by one against another in this largest of all black societies? Or should we take as typical of the Black Experience the Afro-American community which was subjected to chattel slavery for over 200 years, and in the past century has been denied the elemental attributes of modern citizenship and humanity by devious, grotesque, and brutal forms of white racism...
...Movement," the atrophied remainder of the county's Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP), the party that had elected black representatives from all over the state in 1964 and sent them to Atlantic City to challenge the all-white official delegation. The hut was to hold the weekly citizenship classes. It was built from the foundations of an old church. Now the benches had been moved out into the yard to make room for five beds and two families--nine children and three adults--who had just been kicked off their plantation...
...Uhuru," independence, in 1963 ushered in a new Kenya. Africans became the wielders of political power; Asians were given the choice between Kenyan citizenship or the full rights of British subjects. Some Asians, particularly the Ishmaeli community, put their hopes in an integrated society and applied for Kenyan citizenship. But the majority of Asians, roughly 100,000 out of about 160,000, took the British option. With vivid memories of the slaughter of Arabs on the nearby island of Zanzibar in 1962, they feared future instances of African racism and xenophobia. Also, it was clear that the sluggish economy could...