Word: civilization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Conservative Southerners have long resented civil rights legislation and court rulings aimed solely at their region. Richard Nixon acknowledged their feeling last year by giving assurances that he would not support such measures. Last week he kept his promise...
Burden of Proof. The 1965 statute was passed because the case-by-case enforcement suits initiated under earlier civil rights acts had proved inadequate to overcome Southern resistance to Negro voting. The law banned literacy tests in seven states where less than half the voting-age population was registered. It also allowed the Attorney General to assign federal examiners to observe elections in counties covered by the act. Most important, it forbade the affected states and counties to adopt new voting laws and procedures without the approval of the U.S. Attorney General, and thus placed on the states the burden...
Both Ralph Abernathy, the civil rights leader who had supported the strike to the point of going to jail, and Moe Foner, secretary of the organizing committee for the Drug and Hospital Employees Union, were pleased by the outcome. They had good reason. The strike renewed the partnership between the labor and civil rights movements and represented a much needed victory for the advocates of activist nonviolence. The union's objective is to organize the nation's 1,500,000 nonprofessional hospital workers, many of whom are black. As the settlement was being announced, union men were...
...Mexican Americans proud to be Mexican Americans. Chavez must be given credit, I think, for really starting the Mexican-American civil rights movement." Ironically, mechanization hastened by unionization may eventually diminish Chavez's farm-labor base?but it will not slow the momentum of la causa...
...only punishment available is civil law, and here the university must remember with the romantics--you can't go home again...