Word: ethnics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Conservative candidates no longer offer any grandiose designs for the recasting of American society. But in 1966 they really don't have to. By skillfully manipulating the issues, they may be able to make inroads into normally Democratic blocs. Ethnic minorities in the cities and even distrinaire liberals in the suburbs are agitated over what they consider the tendency of disadvantaged urban Negroes to resort to violence and rioting. That's why only 25 northern Democrats voted against anti-riot legislation proposed by a Florida G.O.P. Congressman. Many who support the Vietnam war, yet oppose escalating food prices, are willing...
...Nigger, Get Out!" Among whites, the fiercest prejudice is found in the lower-income ethnic enclaves where jobs and homes are most immediately threatened by the Negro trying to break out of the ghetto. "We have our own section here," said a storekeeper in South Boston. "Why can't the Negroes be happy in their own area?" Chicago's "white riots" against Negroes who were demonstrating for open housing were fomented largely by first-and second-generation Americans-mostly of Irish, Italian, Swedish and Eastern European ancestry-who have a long history of ethnic animosity...
...South, with Ramfis as Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan and Aida his Ne gro servant. Dance buffs will get their chance in two weeks when the park's Shakespeare troupe, now in its twelfth season, yields its stage to a nine-day festival of ballet, ethnic and modern dance. Hoving's hoopla has perked up the park's staid old standby programs too. When he staged the Goldman Band's opening as a Gay Nineties costume party with 5? beer and hot dogs, 35,000 people turned out, giving the band the biggest audience...
...Michigan legislature this summer passed a law requiring the state's school to use only history texts that "include accurate recording of any and all ethnic groups who have made contributions to the world. American or the State of Michigan societies." California enacted a similar law last year. The N.A.A.C.P is compiling lists of text it considers fair, vows "community action and protest" against school boards that approve books it deems "distorted or segregated." Harlem Congressman Adam Clayton Powell will question textbook publishers at hearings on the topic by his House Education and Labor Committee late this month...
Fight for Acceptance. Book publishers, scenting big sales, are rushing to give ethnic groups a better break on their pages. The N.A.A.C.P.'s education director, June Shagaloff, says that 175 elementary and preschool books-mostly readers, health and science texts-now meet N.A.A.C.P. standards. But she complains that not enough school systems are buying them. Sales have been made mostly to schools in large northern cities, but the books are also in use in parts of Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia. Publishers are so competitive that they commonly do not divulge sales; McGraw-Hill, however, reports...