Word: civilization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...days we youth take over buildings, we evict deans, we do verbal war with our mentors. So it goes. We didn't always play these games in particular. A long time ago before the current era and before the Age of the Hippies and Flower Children there was the Civil Rights Movement. The Civil Rights Movement was the far-flung expedition of northern liberalism (a fine thing in those days). It was, as we all know, the first domino to fall in the chain reaction that led youth to the state of "revolution" we're in now. But there...
...were driving through the South during the past week, I could taste the glory and respectability of the old civil rights days. Parents, teachers, ministers lauded us for going down there. Life magazine spoke of heroism. When we were murdered by police, the vast majority of adults in this country turned purple with unspeakable outrage. They loved us then. And now? In our latest adventure they brought the police on us themselves...
...Civil Rights Movement benefited more the northerners involved than it uplifted oppressed Negroes (as they were called). Very little of southern life was changed in return for the vast amount of energy the crusaders put into getting there. Imagine how much money the tens of thousands of people who came down for the Selma march in 1965 spent on gasoline, motel rooms, airplane tickets, restaurants. Millions of dollars, and the cops got the firehoses out as soon as they left...
...Fate willed, worked for The Southern Courier, the civil rights newspaper, during its first two summers in '65 and '66. The Southern Courier represented the ultimate effort of white liberal evangelism. Started by some Harvard CRIMSON editors and funded by a lot of liberal people and their organizations in the Northeast, it was an attempt to expose what was wrong with what true with the understood result that the governmental system would then have to correct itself...
...Courier finally folded last November after it had become clear to its editor that it was hopeless to keep on trying for any further political change to stop discrimination. The newspaper wasn't a very effective weapon in pragmatic politics. The Courier, and the Civil Rights Movement, in general, brought about a great new cultural awareness, but didn't change the hands of the power...