Word: congressed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...atmosphere in Congress this week is like that of a Gulf Cost city awaiting a hurricane. To most Congressmen and Senators, the forces converging on the Capitol from the ghettoes and backwaters of the nation seem elemental, irrational, to be endured for as long as necessary and then, if possible, to be forgotten...
...leaders of the campaign have announced repeatedly that the marchers will remain in Washington until they are assured that their demands will be met, although the probability that Congress will respond positively to those demands is now generally thought...
...reason was money. Pressed by ghetto anger, Congress responded with the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965. Federal funds from the Act and other sources began pouring into the School, sending the Ed School's grant total soaring from one million in 1964 to four million in 1967. Not all the funds were earmarked for urban work, but the urban allotment increased steadily. In 1965, Theodore R. Sizer, Dean of the Ed School, noted in his annual report: "Education's mecca is now Federal Office Building #6 in Washington...
Demonstrations in support of the demands will begin May 20 and continue until mid-June. By then, SCLC planners expect Congress to have taken action--or to have indicated that none will be taken. A massive march--which organizers hope will be larger than the 1963 civil rights march that brought 200,000 people to the capital--will be held...
...president of the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville when the paper harshly criticized Homer Adkins, who was running for Governor. When elected, Adkins retaliated by packing the university's board of trustees and persuading them to sack Fulbright. Out of a job, Fulbright ran for Congress...