Word: integrationism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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While Nixon's endorsement may have helped Finch regain some of his lost prestige, the school integration compromise did nothing to improve the Secretary's standing with his black constituency. Finch had argued that school districts should, without exception, comply with the 1964 Civil Rights Act by the...
Despite these pieties, Dent is regarded by many liberals as a Southern-fried Rasputin in the Nixon Administration. Whenever the White House seems to drift to the right or placate Southern interests, Presidential Aide Dent is thought to be deeply involved. He was, after all, a close associate of South...
N.A.A.C.P. is so well established an abbreviation that many forget that the "C" stands for "colored." Negroes preferred to be called that 60 years ago, when the association was founded; "black" was then an insult. For many Negroes today, the connotations have been reversed, as has some of the thrust...
To Clarence Mitchell, 58, director of the Washington office, "our thing" meant continued faith in integration, a rejection of black for black's sake. "I make no claim to importance merely because I share common ancestry with the people of Africa," Mitchell said. "I am a part of the...
Williams is as devastating on hypocritical blacks as on complacent whites. While Browning tours the country fund raising for his organization, Williams acid-etches his caricatures: the moneyed Ebony set, keeping up with the black Joneses; solemn costume wearers, going "the African route"; showbiz swingers, balling their way to integration...