Word: civilizations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...another display of Kennedy's extraordinary emotional impact on Negroes. In the early days of the Kennedy Administration, both Jack and Bobby were criticized by black leaders for inadequate and tardy attention to civil rights. That attitude changed gradually, so that now, when Kennedy visits Watts, the word is "Make way for the President." In Washington's ghetto recently, he was greeted as a "blue-eyed soul brother...
Abernathy, who maintains that "my job is to tell the politicians what saith the Lord," had an opportunity to do so when 72 friendly Congressmen, including seven Senators, invited him up to Capitol Hill. In a 90-minute meeting, he promised to discourage civil disobedience-except "as a last resort." In turn, the Congressmen promised to set up what Michigan's Democratic Senator Philip Hart called a "bipartisan, biracial" committee of 15 to 17 members to confer weekly with Abernathy and his lieutenants...
...Boston's medical schools are allowed to use the patients at City as teaching cases. It is a system which was set up at the turn of the century and for most of these years has been the most effective means of providing Boston with charity medicine. From the Civil War through the Depression of the 30's, City thrived. It was the only place where the poor in Boston could go. The resulting variety of cases was immense, and medical students even scrambled to obtain residencies and research posts there...
...Edgar Hoover, the antiquated director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, has never held any sympathy for advocates of civil disobedience or for vociferous, active reformers. On several occasions he publicly vilified the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in language which was scurrilous and abusive. Thus it is not surprising that he should now lash out against Students for a Democratic Society and other New Left groups, terming them threats to American security...
...When one's country is wrong, loyalty demands protesting the wrong. And when petition to correct the wrong fails, testing the constitutionality or legality of the law by civil disobedience is a needed and courageous act of loyalty. Silence and compliance are betrayal of one's country," Butler said...