Word: help
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...holding back. "I've never heard so much cynicism about an election," says Nathan Wright, a leading organizer and observer of black militants. "Some are, perhaps, even cynical enough to vote for Wallace, on the theory that if this is what white America wants, let's help the issue come to the top." That may be an extreme possibility, but, as always, it is hard to say who speaks for U.S. Negroes. Moderates tend to agree with Whitney Young: "White liberals can indulge the privilege of not voting, but blacks can't. This is a crucial election...
Other dissidents will get their dissatisfaction on the books by writing in Eugene McCarthy, Black Panther Leader Eldridge Cleaver or Comedian Pat Paulsen. Another tactic is to vote only for congressional and gubernatorial candidates who reflect dissenting views. Among anti-Humphrey Democrats, the hope is that all this will help speed old-line party leaders out of power and permit insurgents to take over...
...handbills repeating some of the most scurrilous anti-white and anti-Semitic statements to come from the black community, "Cut out, stay out, stay off, shut up. get off our backs," reads one, "or your relatives in the Middle East will find themselves giving benefits to raise money to help you get out from the terrible weight of an enraged black community." On TV, Shanker said that his union was trying to prevent "a Nazi takeover of the schools...
Javits also has troubles within his own party. Vice Presidential Candidate Spiro Agnew was not being helpful when he attacked New York's Liberal Party as a "far out" group; the Liberals have endorsed Javits. Nor did Agnew help by appearing at a dinner honoring Javits' right-wing Conservative Party opponent, James L. Buckley, the brother of National Review Editor William F. Buckley...
Soviet demands that he pack the Central Committee with conservatives, Dubcek rallied support for his progressives at grass-roots meetings. The press was still free enough to help, pinpointing and decrying meetings of "factionalist" conservatives, thus enabling Dubcek to counter their bid for popular support...