Word: civilizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Browning, the black American, is moderate in his political philosophy, and middle class in orientation. After a period of teaching in a small white college. Browning joins the IRJ instead of a more militant civil rights group, hoping that racial justice can be secured through the political channels. But disillusioned and consumed with rage after the youth's killing, Browning realizes that the political channels are ultimately only for those who hold power, and that an oppressed people can rid themselves of their oppression only through violence...
...educational and political concern: one bringing together liberals and radicals, activists and scholars, students and faculty. It maintains a vision of a democratic society, where at all levels the people have control of the decisions which affect them and the resources on which they are dependent. . . . It is civil libertarian in its treatment of those with whom it disagrees, but clear in its opposition to any anti democratic principle as a basis for governmental, social or political organization...
Speaking at the Harvard Law School Forum on "The Radical Lawyer in America," William M. Kunstler, a noted civil rights attorney, sought a redefinition of the lawyer's role...
Boudin's view of a radical lawyer differed somewhat from Kunstler's. Boudin said. "Students who are general practitioners and members of large corporations will also be able to serve civil libertarian interests...
...Chicago Eight" trial, eight radicals are the first to be indicted under the anti-riot provision of the 1968 civil rights...