Word: civilizations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SENSE OF RESPONSIBILITY has emerged within the black community. The big outbursts starting with Harlem, 1964, were riots of rising expectations, of frenzy at the gap between reality and the promise of the Civil Rights Acts. The riots showed blacks they were not impotent, but also that their best hopes resided in themselves, not in the white man's City Hall or in Washington. Explains Junius Williams, 25, black founder of the Newark Area Planning Association: "The rebellion kicked off something in a lot of people's minds. We've got power, they said...
Request for a Delay. Last week this fear, widely held by liberals and moderates, led to an embarrassing family dispute within the Administration. Some 40 attorneys working in the Civil Rights Division of Mitchell's Justice Department gathered in the apartment of one of their number. They met in an unprecedented act of rebellion to discuss a petition of protest to Attorney General Mitchell. The day before, the Justice Department had gone into federal court to retreat from the Government's previous insistence that 33 recalcitrant Mississippi school districts meet this year's deadline for desegregation-after...
LaRosa, 51, met Kennedy through "Boots" Moss, an aide who died in Kennedy's 1964 airplane crash. Now a civil defense adviser in Massachusetts, he was a professional fireman in Andover, Mass., for almost nine years. He was highly trained in all forms of rescue work and, had he been called upon, might have been invaluable on the night of Mary Jo Kopechne's drowning: even if Mary Jo was beyond saving, his presence would have strengthened Ted's claim to have done everything he could for the girl...
...meet Los Angeles' Sam Yorty. Everywhere, she warned against oversimplifying Northern Ireland's problems. "The press feels we're either trying to kick hell out of the British or kick hell out of the Protestants," she said in Los Angeles. "What we really want are our civil rights...
...Surprisingly, Bernadette has achieved little rapport in the U.S. with the young or the New Left militants, or even with the mass of blacks with whose struggle Ulster's Catholics have strongly identified. Further, her emphasis on civil rights seems to have confused at least some Irish Americans, who have so long been opposed to black militancy. Where Bernadette has scored most heavily is with the liberal wing of the U.S. Establishment, but it remains to be seen whether the basically conservative voters of Ulster will respond with comparable enthusiasm when -and if-she stands for reelection. That...