Word: crimed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...civic action organization that is the moving force behind a dozen "black pride" projects in the slums, where burned-out shops still define the fury of the 1967 riots. ESVID runs a black-uniformed corps of 126 black youths that patrols the ghetto, escorting people through the crime-ridden streets and protecting threatened store owners -both black and white. The patrols also report alleged instances of police brutality and work to clean up their neighborhood. Ditto organized the Political Education Project (PEP), a junior version of city hall made up of black teen-agers who were elected last year...
...Ford Foundation gave the Law School a $1 million grant to establish a Center for the Advancement of Criminal Justice, where policemen, judges, and other law enforcement officers could come and do research on problems of crime and justice...
Even I was surprised to learn, however, that you had moved on to criminal slander. A news release sent out by the Harvard News Office on May 31 said that CRIMSON editors, "through anonymous advertisements," accused Samuel Huntington of genocide and other crimes. I found that hard to believe until I looked. There it was, an advertisement baldly saying that a professor was guilty of a crime...
...advertisement in question ("Samuel Huntington--Crime: Genocide") was a mistake. It contained "malicious and untrue" information, and we said as much in a retraction box printed twice. However, the important point is that the ad was a mistake--and not a deliberate attempt by CRIMSON to hide behind an anonymous ad while slandering a professor. The implication offered by the News Office and Mr. Jensen that CRIMSON members placed the ad is as irresponsible and untrue as the ad itself...
...another, even Blueboy. "We made a terrible mistake," he says on his deathbed. "We forgot that white folks is still here. We forgot we was operating in America." Less totally true than it once was, perhaps, the author's inescapable moral still seems timely enough: crime may sometimes pay, but being black never does...