Word: civilizations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With the march over, the campers can now either go home or resort to acts of massive civil disobedience, which Abernathy has long threatened. At week's end a demonstration at the Department of Agriculture did dissolve into a sit-in on Independence Avenue and a bottle-throwing fracas with police outside the shanty city. Arrests: 87. Even so, by toning down his demands to include those things that are within reach and by exaggerating his successes-he claims credit for several actions that the Administration would probably have taken anyway-Abernathy has also left open the door...
Economic Effects. In sharp contrast to the disorders that brought the country to the brink of civil war, France was relatively 'quiet on election eve. Nearly all the 8,000,000 strikers were back at work, and the Sorbonne was calm again after Paris police dislodged the occupying young revolutionaries. Even so, France felt the severe economic consequences of the disorders. Rising food costs have already canceled out much of the 12% to 14% wage hikes that the strikers won. A drastic fall-off in tourism (some hotels report bookings down 50%) means more economic squeezes ahead...
...Reconstruction" that followed the Civil War, the victorious North tried to wipe out every lingering trace of slavery. But three constitutional amendments and more than half a dozen federal statutes could not put an end to prejudice. As Abolitionist Frederick Douglass wrote in 1881: "The colored man is the Jean Valjean of America. He has escaped from the galleys and hence all presumptions are against...
...largely unavailing and unenforced, but there. Last week the Supreme Court reached back across more than 100 years to use one of them to impose a major new rule on the country. The court's concern was racial discrimination in housing-long one of the most emotional of civil rights issues. Only three months ago, housing was the target of a new and hard-fought civil rights law, but the court's decision made the lengthy congressional argument over that law seem largely academic. The long-ignored Civil Rights Act of 1866, said a majority of seven justices...
...rent rooms in a boarding house that they own and live in. That is the legislative will of 1968, said Harlan, and the court should not go beyond it. The majority countered the argument by observing that Congress had carefully noted that it was not superseding any earlier civil rights law. Besides, said Justice Stewart, there is a distinction between the new law and the old one. The 1968 law provides for punitive damages against those who discriminate, while the 1866 act merely bars discrimination without providing a penalty...