Word: idea
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last two decades, he will surely be recognized for his role as a leader of this century. I have no words for those who killed him. But as a father, I bleed for others' sons who may die in the streets, having hopelessly cast aside the idea of nonviolent attainment of the principles of our Constitution. King preached as a man of God, but men of conscience must remember him as a man of the people...
...MARCHING FOR CIVIL RIGHTS (Selma to Montgomery, 1965): Like an idea whose time has come, not even the marching of mighty armies can halt us. We are moving to the land of freedom. Let us march to the realization of the American dream. Let us march on segregated housing. Let us march on segregated schools...
There had apparently been a shift in the Council's plans too. It still wanted contact with the students; Mrs. Bunting said that she expected "that students will be invited to the future Council meetings." But the Council was uncomfortable with the idea of having permanent members: thinking it could "better sample the diversity of Radcliffe students by inviting selected girls to each meeting," a Trustee said...
Although Ford said the Faculty would never accept the idea of "assured positions without competitive review," he added that a black scholar whose field was, for example, the Negro in America, "would have things going for him that a white scholar would not" in the competition for a Faculty post. Ford said he regretted that more black scholars do not go into such fields...
...Cohen and Clark condemn the traditional notion that compensatory education seeks to compensate for the ghetto child's "cultural deprivation." This term imlies none-too-subtly that whatever is black and poor is deprived and whatever is white and middle class is adequate. Apart from its racist connotations, the idea points the finger at the wrong party. The real failure, Review contributors indicate, lies not with the ghetto child but with the school's inability to provide a stimulating "educational environment...