Word: concerns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Broad Paths. Young's concern is shared by other top-echelon Negro leaders-most notably A. Philip Randolph, president of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters; Roy Wilkins, executive director of the National Associa tion for the Advancement of Colored People; and Martin Luther King, winner of the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize and president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Each has explored broad pathways to Negro advancement: Randolph in the labor movement, Wilkins by affirming legal rights, King by awakening the nation's conscience, Young by opening up economic opportunity. None of the advances came easily...
...begun meeting with business and labor leaders to seek job openings for Negroes, still its biggest concern. When the U.S. entered World War II, 46 local branches were scattered around the country, and the league, through Industrial Relations Laboratories in 300 defense plants, was able to place more than 150,000 Negroes in jobs never before open to them. "What the Urban League means to the Negro community," said Gunnar Myrdal in An American Dilemma, his classic 1944 study of U.S. race relations, "can best be understood by observing the dire need of its activity in cities where there...
...restored order to a country that was torn by political strife. It has done so at the expense of much of Greece's exuberant, explosive spirit. The image of a surtaki-dancing, owzo-glass-smashing people is being replaced by that of a docile folk whose chief concern seems to be getting to church on time and keeping the young girls out of miniskirts. Not since Calvin put the fear of God into Geneva has any regime so devoted itself to reforming the moral character of its citizenry...
Since the Arab-Israeli war in June, Jerusalem has once again been a matter for cartographic concern-not to mention diplomatic debates and tourist-promotion schemes. Joyful that the shrines of the Old City are in Jewish hands for the first time in nearly 2,000 years, Jews from all over the world are signing up for pilgrimages. Plane and boat reservations for trips from France to Israel are sold out for two months in advance. "Israel," says TWA sales manager in Chicago, John J. Sweeney, "is a hot destination." Wary about the possibility of renewed hostilities, gentiles have been...
...were out demonstrating in cities and towns throughout New Zealand last week. So far, only some 6,600 people (out of a labor base of 1,000,000) are looking for work, but to New Zealanders, who had known no unemployment for decades, this was a matter for deep concern. Union leaders darkly predicted that there would be 20,000 jobless before long...