Word: civilizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...other branches of Government, lower courts and society in general. When neither the executive nor the legislative branch cared enough about the Negro to guarantee his basic rights as a citizen, not to mention as a human being, the Warren Court outlawed school segregation, setting in motion the civil rights advances of the '50s and '60s. When no other body of Government seemed concerned that city dwellers were made second-class citizens by the grossest forms of malapportionment, the court said that one man was allowed one vote. When no one else took action against abuses of police power...
Close associates of Kennedy's meanwhile began to talk about the likely consequences of a death sentence. Civil libertarians might start a campaign to save Sirhan from the gas chamber. Some friends envisioned demonstrations in front of Ted's Senate office or Ethel's Hickory Hill home...
...matter of fact," Price said, "I never slept overnight in New England until I came to Harvard." He said he was a "civil servant" in the Defense Department during the early...
James M. Fallows '70, president of the CRIMSON, won the $250 first prize for his series of articles last fall on civil rights work in Mississippi and Alabama...
...most successful examples of student protest has made its point without a single sit-in. It all began last January when Arthur Present, a Civil Aeronautics Board examiner, recommended that the CAB end the airlines' "youth fares," which allow passengers from twelve to 22 to fly for half fare on a standby basis or for two-thirds fare with a reserved seat. Prodded partly by ailing intercity bus lines, Present found the discount fares "unjustly discriminatory." He did not reckon with the power of American students when they feel it is they who have suffered the discrimination...