Word: laws
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lyndon Johnson intended, the 1964 civil rights bill was a monument to John Kennedy, the measure that became law last week will stand in part as a memorial to Martin Luther King. The 1968 Civil Rights Act, opening some 80% of all the nation's housing to Negroes, should also endure as a major legislative landmark of the Johnson Administration. "The proudest moments of my presidency," said L.B.J. at the bill-signing ceremony in the White House, "have been such times as this when I have signed into law the promises of a century...
...Negro who is refused housing because of his race must first appeal to the Department of Housing and Urban Development, then file suit in the courts. Yet the psychological effect of the act upon developers, homeowners and Negroes alike will open many doors. For the first time by federal law, a Negro in the U.S. is as entitled as any white-or more accurately, four-fifths as entitled-to buy or rent any house or apartment that he can afford...
...moral sense, violence is not power but an act of despair, an admission of failure to find any other way to gain a goal. By definition, every society is committed to nonviolence; the violent are suicidal, for society must repress acts against law and order. Yet realistically, one cannot gloss over the fact that violence often pays off. In the violent subculture of a juvenile gang, the nonviolent are considered cowards, and violence produces not guilt but status...
...more dangerous-even if less tasty-than alcohol. Smoking pot, they say, should be as socially and legally acceptable as drinking cocktails or highballs. In this they are supported by a growing number of physicians, psychologists, sociologists and criminologists. But they are vigorously opposed by both U.S. and state law-enforcement officers. Notable among these is Commissioner Henry L. Giordano of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics, who sees the use of marijuana as "a vice which draws with it a train of depravity stretching far into the future...
...marijuana user is unlikely to get his hands on hashish, let alone refined THC, considerable research must be done into the properties of all cannabis preparations before legalization of marijuana can be rationally considered. Action in this direction is obviously needed; like Prohibition's Volstead Act, current antimarijuana laws only result in the arrest of increasing thousands of young Americans each year without any deterrent effect. The use of marijuana is fast becoming a social phenomenon rather than a legal nuisance, but medical science and the law have not kept up with the change...