Word: fight
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...within and outside the country. But if the threat is a fact of life, must it engulf you wherever you go in the country? Must it dominate the silver screen, walk in the streets with you, and be dropped on the beaches of Tel Aviv? Won't a people fight for and believe in their country without this...
After a spotty 8-3 opening victory over Tufts, the Harvard soccer team goes to Storrs today to battle a potentially potent University of Connecticut team. UConn is generally in the thick of the fight for an NCAA bid, and, off a narrow loss to last year's New England champion, Vermont, figures to be solid again...
...bracing for a new showdown. And although Northerners find it hard to understand, this showdown will be far more important than any that have gone before. More than the landmark 1954 Supreme Court decision or the spotty efforts to wipe out segregated schools that followed, the 1968 fight to give black children a decent education will determine the Negro's future in the South...
...primary weapons, but now much of its punch was gone. There were no more marches, few boycotts, little redneck backlash. The white Northern conscience turned to other things. Students began to work against the war; white liberals set to work in the ghettos. With no tangible goblins to fight, the Southern Negroes struggled for ways to keep the nation's support mobilized...
This summer's court session in Alabama saw two major trials, each illustrating one phase of the fight against Freedom of Choice. The first, held in early August, was mainly valuable as a theatrical production. The name of the suit--The United States of America vs. The United Klans of America--hinted what kind of an affair it would be. An inexperienced Justice Department lawyer brought a parade of 50 residents of Crenshaw County, Ala., to the stand and had them tell what the Klan had been doing to keep Freedom of Choice from working in the county's schools...