Word: extents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Poverty, of course, is the heart of the problem. Alabama's economy has been shaky since Reconstruction days, and the euphemistic talk of the "New South" has little evident effect outside of the few industrial centers like Birmingham or Huntsville. To some extent, this general economic depression is to blame for the black poverty, and liberal-but-loyal white southerners concernedly tell visitors that "these poor folks--black ones and white ones--are a real problem...
...Kennedy slate won the May 7 primary defeating a pro-Humphrey slate. Under the Rev. Channing E. Phillips the D.C. anti-Administration--and to a large extent progressive black--forces have taken control of the party. The Phillips leadership will probably join the new Democratic Coalition...
...only man who could bring any order to the state's byzantine party politics was assassinated in California in June. Liberals control the party to a certain extent, but their factionalization prevents any power plays on a national level at this point. Two coalitions of McCarthy and Kennedy forces are under way. The McCarthyite Coalition for a Democratic Alternative will probably die with party senatorial candidate Paul O'Dwyer's defeat in November. Though still in its formative stages, the Coalition for the Politics of the People hopes to become an issue-oriented reformist coalition in a state which...
...liberal-black coalition which fought a hard battle for McCarthy last summer controls about fifteen per cent of the party structure. The liberals are surprisingly well organized for such a Wallacite state. The coalition is strongest in Chapel Hill (the University of North Carolina), Durham, and to a certain extent Charlotte where a strong coalition came very close to winning last vear. The biracial forces will shoot for city posts in 1969 and seizure of country organizationa control whereever possible...
What needs to be done in Kansas can be done, as California and Colorado and, to a lesser extent, Massachusetts and Illinois have shown. In California, psychiatric aides have been upgraded to the rank of technicians, starting at $400 a month with an $80 raise at the end of a year. After in-service education, they can advance to positions of recognized responsibility, with appropriate pay raises to a top of $1,048 a month. Several of the Topeka State aides' minor grievances can be adjusted by simple administrative action, if Dr. Bay and other officials are willing. Salaries...