Word: hispanicization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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By decade's end the unwanted distinction of being the nation's poorest large minority group will pass from blacks to Hispanics. So says a study by Washington's nonprofit Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, which adds that while Hispanic households still earn more than black households, larger family...
Driving Hispanic incomes down are high unemployment, particularly in the Southwest, and low-paying jobs. But black incomes have been rising: according to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, black men earned 42% as much as white men in 1940; by 1980 the figure was up to 69%. The rise...
Its driving beat and chanted lyrics echo the pulse and pitch of inner-city streets. But rap music also draws out a meaner side of ghetto life: gang violence. When some 14,500 fans poured into Long Beach Arena near Los Angeles last week for a concert featuring the popular...
Most damaging were the charges that in the early '60s Rehnquist intimidated black and Hispanic voters at polling places in Phoenix, where he was then a local Republican activist, by questioning their ability to read. Until 1964, it was legal in Arizona to challenge a person's right to vote...
A far less benevolent picture of his activities emerged from the testimony of four new witnesses. Psychology Professor Sydney Smith, a Democratic poll watcher at the time, said that in the '60s he saw Rehnquist go up to two black men at the polls and say to them, "You're...