Word: equalize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...such civic activities as registering to vote and performing jury duties. In the Senate, however, the bill underwent almost alchemistic changes. All but assured of final passage this week in the upper chamber, the measure could become a legislative landmark in the Negro's progress toward genuinely equal citizenship...
...riots on everyone except the rioters." Disputing the commission's attempt to debunk the notion that riots are planned by extremists, Nixon in a radio-network speech alluded to conspiracies to ignite next summer. Only a combination of efforts can avert racial upheavals, Nixon said, and he attributed equal importance to bringing "the American dream to the ghetto" and preparing "to meet force with force if necessary." What attracted the most attention was his reiteration of the need to make it "abundantly clear that these preparations are made, and that retaliation against the perpetrators and the planners of violence...
Hope & Danger. By week's end two mutations in the struggle had evolved. Growing weary of Mayor Loeb's intransigence, fashionably dressed white housewives urged him to give in, while council members called for the dues checkoff and for pledging Memphis' government to equal-opportunity hiring and promotion. And the scope of Negro demands was widening as swiftly as their mood could darken. Now agitators call not only for victory for the garbage men but better jobs and housing for all of Memphis' Negroes...
...lost his wars against the U.S. cavalry. Johnson's document, however, was the first presidential message ever to deal specifically with the subject. The President requested $500 million in federal programs, a boost of 10% over present outlays, to help "provide a standard of living for Indians equal to that of the country as a whole." Items would cover 10,000 Indian children under Head Start, set up a "model community school system," pay for 2,500 new houses a year, allocate $112 million in health projects, provide 600 more health aides in Indian communi ties, spend $22.7 million...
...black people of this country as being little different from traditional ethnic, immigrant groups. Thus, he would have the black people of America act as a disciplined interest group, to extract demands from the pluralistic society. This accomplished, he believes blacks can enter society on a relatively equal basis...