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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week, Whitten lost, 175 to 167. But the result was hardly an encouraging victory for Congressional civil rights forces. No ground was lost. But those who hoped for more federal sanctions were beaten soundly...

Author: By James M. Fallows, | Title: Rights Paralysis | 10/10/1968 | See Source »

Whitten's role as leader of the group came as no surprise. A conservative and long-time opponent of federal civil rights bills, Whitten had fought to trim every appropriation bill this year (except one providing for increasing Interstate Highway construction, much of it, coincidentally, in the South...

Author: By James M. Fallows, | Title: Rights Paralysis | 10/10/1968 | See Source »

THROUGHOUT the summer, prospects have been bleak for civil rights supporters in Congress. Wary Congressmen, watching the swing to the right among the home voters, have lost much of their ardor for further federal civil rights legislation. Those guiding welfare bills through the House watched helplessly as the inevitable budget cuts took alarmingly large chunks out of their appropriations. Then, in June, the bomb fell. Guided by Congressman Jamie Whitten of Mississippi, the House came within inches of saddling an $18 billion HEW bill with a rider that threatened to return school desegregation efforts to the medieval...

Author: By James M. Fallows, | Title: Rights Paralysis | 10/10/1968 | See Source »

Although Agnew does not refer to "Marxists" on campus anymore, he still assures crowds that a Nixon administration will put down by force even the mildest forms of civil disobedience. Predictably, the head of the GOP's ticket uses a softer approach to win applause at rallies. "Remember, I believe in our young people," Richard Nixon says. "They're great. Give 'em a chance." But Nixon accepts Agnew's remarks about protests, and the clear warning in his remarks is that any students who disappoint him by disrupting a university deserve to be punished...

Author: By Jack D. Burke, | Title: Students Under Fire | 10/10/1968 | See Source »

...earlier attack Gubbrud sewed together several quotations from McGovern's speeches on civil rights to prove that the senator was in favor of flooding South Dakota with millions of Negroes from the large cities...

Author: By Robert M. Krim, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: McGOVERN SEEN AS LIKELY SENATE VICTOR | 10/9/1968 | See Source »

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