Word: civilization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Rafferty, the ultra-conservative Republican nominee and a strong "law and order" candidate, would be helped immeasurably in his lagging campaign with an efficient settlement of university disorders by the National Guard. Not only would the crisis vindicate his more extreme anti-civil libertarian pronouncements--now under heavy attack from liberal republicans--but it would place his opponent, Alan Cranston, in an extremely difficult position...
...rest of the labor movement. "A lot of things we're trying to do for kids can't be done in the classroom. Kids who come to school without any breakfast aren't going to learn one damn thing. We do more for them through the civil rights movement and the labor movement by affecting the context of their lives." An active integrationist, Shanker was a charter member of CORE, and joined protests in Selma...
...that it tries to assure for Negroes, Carter sent an ultimatum to the board demanding that Steel be reinstated before noon on Oct. 21. N.A.A.C.P. Executive Director Roy Wilkins, who was away on a vacation cruise during the board vote, told Carter that his action was "inappropriate," but other civil libertarians took a different view. They admitted that the thesis of Steel's article is open to question, but they were also quick to question the N.A.A.C.P.'s reaction. The American Civil Liberties Union, for example, denounced Steel's firing as "a deplorable...
Like many commercial makers nowadays, the agency wanted a darker-skinned Negro so that there would be no mistaking the integrated nature of its advertisements. Threatened with boycotts and scolded by civil rights groups, sponsors have responded by doubling the number of integrated commercials in the past year to 5% of the total number of ads made. Rightly noting that this figure is still too low, General Foods has set for itself an even higher quota of 15%. The search for black talent has become so intense, in fact, that one agency is offering its employees a $50 finder...
...political dreams and everyday realities. There was on the one hand the agrarian, egalitarian Eden of their early (often mythical) memory, and on the other, the violent have-and-have-not realities of an incipient industrial state. At the end of the 19th century, this conflict-exacerbated by a civil war and a massive infusion of immigrants-had dislocated millions of people, to say nothing of their ideals. Where was America going? Had a continent been laid waste only for material wealth? Faith in progress was an essential American religion. How was it to be sustained...