Word: core
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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During the years of the Class of '63, student participation in political affairs also increased considerably; the debates which centered around such groups as Core, SNCC, Tocsin, and the Civil Rights Coordinating Committee were attended by more enthusiasm (and more students) than ever before. The phenomenal number of students who took part in the Peace March to Washington last spring represented this new political involvement...
...other hand, white racists in the South have regrouped considerably since the Supreme Court school de-segregation decision of 1954, Handlin pointed out. "Since then a new racist ideology has appeared, the Klan has reassembled and pockets of hard-core resistance have developed...
...core of the racial situation in the United States lies in the all-white residential communities that circle our cities," said the Rev. Marshal Scott of Chicago, moderator of the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. "It is precisely in those neighborhoods where Presbyterianism flourishes that the center of the evil lives...
...tries to stop him, but No sneers evilly and shuts Bond up in a warm, dark cell. To escape, 007 has to crawl through a steaming-hot tube about a mile long. He comes out limp. Doctor No leaps upon him, snarling. Locked together, they reel toward the incandescent core of an atomic furnace...
Though he was the greatest American Negro of the last century, Frederick Douglass was all but forgotten after his death in 1895. The nation was weary of the Negro problem, and Douglass, a Negro militant well in advance of the N.A.A.C.P. and CORE, did not suit the national temper. His reputation was eclipsed by the more accommodating Booker T. Washington, who supported segregation. U.S. historians have heaped praise on Washington while ignoring Douglass and, in one case, misspelling his name...