Word: commonical
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Gradually, however, Negro militancy paid off. White merchants, disturbed by a black Christmas-shopping boycott, helped to pressure the Common Council into enacting an open-occupancy statute that matched a state law and covered some 33% of the city's housing units. When Congress last month passed the federal open-housing bill in the aftermath of the riot-commission report and Martin Luther King's assassination, Mayor Henry Maier asked the council for an ordinance to keep pace with the federal...
...members of the government have long maintained covert contacts with the Viet Cong and its political arm, the National Liberation Front, which is directed by Nguyen Huu Tho, a onetime Saigon lawyer who runs the front from a jungle redoubt. In many cases, the contacts are the residue of common cause in arms against the French more than a decade ago, or the result of family ties. There are signs that of late those contacts are being used with increasing frequency-just in case...
...marchers will arrive at Christ Church at Garden Street at 5 p.m. today following a 3 p.m. rally on the Boston Common. Their student hosts are being asked to meet them at the Church...
Some 400 poor people from New England will spend Thursday in Boston before leaving Friday for Washington. On Thursday afternoon, they will hear the Rev. Ralph Abernathy, head of the SCLC since the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s death, speak on "Poverty in America" on the Boston Common...
...Caravan" at the Christ Church in Cambridge at 5 p.m. Thursday and then escort the poor to the University Dining Halls, Laurence S. Seidman '68, spokesman for the group, said yesterday. Students who agree to help house and feed the poor should meet them in the House Junior Common Room at 5:30 p.m., he added...