Word: frontlash
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...Executive Committee of Harvard's Young Democrats voted last night to join the Young People's Socialist League as co-sponsor of the activities of Frontlash-68 in Massachusetts...
...Frontlash-68 is a national student organization attempting both to educate and to register voters in low-income urban communities...
...backlash, said Urban League Executive Director Whitney Young, "did not materialize as much as many people had anticipated. American citizens, when the chips are down, prefer to vote their intelligence and good sense rather than their prejudices." In many races, in fact, there was something of a Negro "frontlash." Winthrop Rockefeller became the first Republican to win Arkansas' governorship by capturing 80% of the Negro vote?which turned out to be his margin of victory. South Carolina Democrat Ernest ("Fritz") Rollings' 10,000-vote margin for a U.S. Senate seat came mostly from Negro votes. In Maryland, Republican Agnew beat...
Reverse Racism. Despite widespread concern with the problem, many civil rights leaders argue that the term "white backlash" is a misnomer. "It's white frontlash," insists Chicago Urban League Director Edwin Berry. "It's a prejudice that's always been there...
...precisely because of "these people," said Johnson, that many Republicans are going to vote Democratic. "It is not backlash," he said. "That is gone. It is not frontlash. It is the smearlash. Because when people get desperate they get dangerous, and when they get dangerous they are not cautious. And when they get to fearing and doubting and smearing-why, even some of their own people don't want to go along with them...