Word: civilizations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...prosecutor reversed the sense of Article 125 of the Constitution [which guarantees freedom of speech and assembly and other civil rights so long as they serve the interests of the working people]. He said that liberties are to be enjoyed only if they work in the interests of the state. But it is in the interests of socialism and of the workers that people are given these rights...
...stepped up his demands; for the first time he insisted that the whole Ocean Hill-Brownsville experiment in community control be considered a failure and dissolved. He was also angered at Lindsay for appointing outspoken advocates of decentralization to the school board. Two of them, John Doar, former federal civil rights prosecutor, and the Rev Milton A. Galamison, a Negro who has led school boycotts, were elected president and vice president of the board...
...converted to regular Harvard scholarships. No referendum of Harvard students can change the functions of officers in the United States military "services." The suggestion of such a referendum reminds us of Stephen Douglas's conception of a "democratic" solution to the problem of the expansion of slavery before the Civil War. Under Douglas's plan, the white residents of the territorial areas (Nebraska and Kansas) would vote to decide whether slavery would be legal when the territories attained statehood. For moral men, there can be no "right" to suppress people fighting for social, political, and economic freedom, just as there...
...Angeles, two Negro civil rights workers, Robert Hall and Lou Smith, borrowed $1,000 to launch a job-training project. To provide the facilities, they started a service station, a clothing shop, and a firm that sells African-style garments to The May Co. and Bullock's department stores. "We want to create economic black power," says Hall, describing his plans to share profits with his 82 employees. "We want the people of the community to own everything we start...
...stakes are thus very big on both sides--so big in fact that neither side has shown the least willingness to compromise. The result has been a kind of burlesque of civil government, with the community and the union thumbing their noses at the Mayor and the school board while they slug it out in the streets...