Word: equalize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...state party opposes Johnson and integration. The insurgents may try to win control of a convention in one or more of the heavily Negro counties. From each county convention, they could send insurgent delegations to the state convention. There, they could offer a series of embarrassing resolutions--supporting LBJ, equal opportunity, full Negro participation in party affairs, and whatever else is dear to the national Democrats and anathema to Mississippi...
Student power, the full and equal participation of students in the decision-making process of their educational institution, has become a major goal of American student leaders. This concern is not a new outburst of self-importance but is rather a continuation of the concept of education illustrated by student activities supporting civil rights. Students' recent social and political involvement has altered the traditional view of education as a preparation for life -- students are now assuming a more meaningful role in society and are no longer content to live in a cocoon. It is recognized that it is impossible...
Insofar as hippie religion is organized at all, it divides into three wings of more or less equal importance. One is the Neo-American Church, which claims an affiliation with the Native American Church, an authentic sect of primitive nature worshipers among the American Indian tribes in the Southwest. The connection is not the hippie love of red men but the fact that the Indians use the hallucinogenic drug peyote as a sacrament in their ceremonies...
...only eleven weeks in print, has already reached the 150,000 mark. Marshall and Hample gathered the letters from friends, hospitals, orphanages, camps and Sunday schools across the nation. Children under ten write much the best letters, they claim. Below that age, explains Hample, "children regard everyone as their equal, including God. Another fascinating thing is the total lack of fear that children displayed in the letters. I suppose that is because they have no guilt...
...more than three centuries, the Boston Latin School ranked with the very best American secondary schools -standing almost without peer among public schools. With an equal reverence for strict discipline and classical learning, Boston Latin could claim at least some part in the later success of a line of "old boys" that stretched all the way from Benjamin Franklin to Joseph Kennedy and Leonard Bernstein. But after World War II, as the city school system deteriorated, Boston Latin went into a sharp decline, and for a while seemed destined to become just another inept high school. Now, in a striking...