Word: civilizations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Civil disobedience." he says, "leads inevitably to riots, and riots condoned lead inevitably to revolution...
Cleveland police-and many lower-middle-class whites-consider Stokes to have been too energetic in behalf of blacks. Two of his civil service commissioners have been indicted on charges of favoring Negro applicants to the police department. The Fraternal Order of Police took full-page newspaper ads to denounce the mayor. Ralph Perk, the Republican county auditor, seemed a candidate well equipped to benefit from Stokes' color and the old-country orientation of Cleveland's working-class population. Of Czech background. Perk is married to an Italian-American and has a daughter-in-law of Slovenian descent...
...issue was decentralized control of public schools, favored by Negro leaders. The union viewed it as a threat to teachers' civil service rights, and a ruinous strike took place...
Southern Strategy. The court's order brushed aside a Justice Department request to allow school boards time to draw up their own plans. The request, prepared by Jerris Leonard, chief of the Civil Rights Division, made it plain that the Administration does not plan to abandon its passive role in the desegregation fight, a role that, as part of the President's "Southern strategy," is calculated to build the Republican Party in Dixie. There was nothing in Leonard's proposal to suggest a firm determination to enforce the law. On the contrary, it could be construed...
Invitation to Resistance. The upheaval that Mitchell fears is encouraged by the Administration's attitude. Leonard's disingenuous remark several weeks ago that he would not have enough "bodies" to enforce desegregation encourages resistance, according to Gary Greenberg. Greenberg had been senior trial lawyer in the Civil Rights Division until Leonard fired him for protesting the slowdown in desegregation. He said: "The invitation to reopen the era of massive resistance is inherent in such an attitude. It makes it infinitely more difficult to bring about obedience...