Word: jure
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Under Blau's leadership, the Neturei Karta sided with the British and the Arabs against Israel's struggle for independence, and it now holds that Jerusalem is an extraterritorial city under U.N. jurisdiction. "I do not recognize Israel de jure or de facto," says Blau. "The worst part of the Jewish state is that what all the nations of the world did not succeed in doing during the years of exile, Israel is now doing. The gentiles wanted to sever Jews from the Torah but did not succeed. Zionists are now succeeding. It is heresy...
...thought, got a city-wide vote to build a fine new Lincoln on the same spot. Negro parents countered with a federal suit on then-novel grounds: it is just as unconstitutional to compel Negroes to attend a de facto segregated school in the North as a de jure segregated school in the South...
...Martin Luther King Jr., leader of last month's Battle of Birmingham, appeared before 5,500 excited people and brought them shouting to their feet when he said: "You must defeat segregation in Chicago because the de facto segregation of Chicago is as bad as the de jure segregation of Birmingham. We're through with tokenism and gradualism and see-how-far-you've-comeism. We're through with we've-done-more-for-your-people-than-anyone-elseism. We can't wait any longer. Now is the time...