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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...BLACK POWER (1967): Today's despair is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow's justice. Black Power is an implicit and often explicit belief in black separatism. Yet behind Black Power's legitimate and necessary concern for group unity and black identity lies the belief that there can be a separate black road to power and fulfillment. Few ideas are more unrealistic. There is no salvation for the Negro through isolation...
...entirely. In Boston, Harvard, M.I.T., and Boston University students marched across the Charles River, and one shouted: "It's V-J day?victory over Johnson!" Outside the White House, a group of youths unfurled a banner reading THANKS, L.B.J. In Kansas City, a photographer wrote: "Congratulations. It was the best thing you could possibly have given up for Lent." Of a record 20,000 letters and telegrams that poured into the White House, however, all but a few congratulated the President for a magnanimous action...
That night he went to bed early, for the first time in memory did not bother to wade through his thick stack of night reading, even overslept the next morning. Relaxed, almost jaunty, he told a group at the Department of Agriculture: "I am a Hereford breeder. I sell registered calves. I am going to have a lot of time to work on it pretty soon...
Readers had become less provincial themselves by the early '50's. According to Menzies, the influx of technically oriented people to Massachusetts when electronics plants began to go up around the new Route 128 provided new readership. The Globestaff responded to a group of more cosmopolitan readers--and began hiring non-native reporters...
Coleman's most important, and most revolutionary conclusion was that educational inputs--books, class-rooms, facilities, teachers--have relatively little effect on minority group achievement compared to socio-economic factors--particularly, the social class of a student's peers, and his own social class background...