Word: equalize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ghetto to Suburb. The President was trying to be just that. In a speech to a White House Conference on Equal Employment Opportunity, he spoke of his efforts to improve the lot of "Americans of every color." Said he: "In education, in housing, in health, in conservation, in poverty, in 20 fields or more, we have passed−and we will pass−far-reaching programs heretofore never enacted. Our cause is the liberation of all of our citizens through peaceful, non violent change." He concluded, "I'm enlisted for the duration...
...Black Bastards!" Both victims were among 29 civil rights demonstrators who were arrested Aug. 14 at nearby Fort Deposit after they had picketed stores, demanding equal job opportunities for local Negroes. After being held for nearly a week in the county jail at Hayneville, they were unexpectedly released one afternoon last week. As they waited outside the Hayneville courthouse for a ride back to Selma, the group began "singing and demonstrating and creating general disorder," as Lowndes County Solicitor Carlton Perdue put it. Then Daniels, Father Morrisroe and two Negro girls strolled across the street to Varner's grocery...
...thinking of all human beings as individuals, the U.S. must look upon Negroes as divided into two groups: a prospering level, committed to integration and possessed of a stake in society; and a slum level, mired in deepening ignorance, immorality and irresponsibility, and growingly enamored of a chauvinistic, equal-but-separate kind of segregation. This schizophrenia visibly affects Negro leadership. Understandable compassion for the poor leads even the most moderate leaders to play down Negro duties, play up white guilt; the extremists of Negro hatred get by unchided. Understandable embarrassment on behalf of the law-abiding middle classes leads...
...laws have been chiefly the affirmation of the Negro's constitutional rights; only now is the U.S. moving into providing greater opportunities. Sargent Shriver's poverty warriors, for example, work for the Office of Economic Opportunity; one of the newest bureaus in Washington is the Equal Economic Opportunity Commission. The thrust of Shriver's program is toward creating employment and employable people, and its experiments may give guidance in determining what U.S. society and Government will do next for the Negro. For ultimately, opportunity is a good job−a job that lets a bent-down...
...England village's annual rite of human sacrifice, and dozens more stories and novels (Hangsaman, We Have Always Lived in the Castle) so horrific that it always surprised readers to learn that all this came from a contented wife and good-humored mother of four who could with equal facility poke gentle fun at her home life in two rollick ing Jean Kerr-like novels (Raising Demons, Life Among the Savages); of a heart attack; in North Bennington...