Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...feeling," said Hammarskjold, "that there is a general will to peace, and that this will should be fostered and encouraged, not by attempts to impose from outside solutions to problems of vital significance to everyone in the region," but by local initiative. "If we have previously experienced chain reactions leading to a continuous deterioration of the situation, we may now have the possibility of starting a chain of reactions in the opposite direction." He told reporters that he was "not willing" to recommend any next step himself. "I feel strongly that more than ever it is in the hands...
...usual group of sociables. The ironic thing about it all was that the crackdown had nothing to do with college excesses or even with bars. A fourteen year-old boy was found in very bad shape due to the effects of a quart of Scotch from a local package store. The Alcoholic Beverage Commission moved in, everywhere, with a vengeance...
...South today, however, is a highly diversified area. Local situations are conditioned by many things: population trends, size of the community, Negro population, the degree of industrialism, tradition of suffrage or lack of suffrage, and strength of local Negro and white leaders. The same type of voluntary arrangement which will produce integration in Louisville, Kentucky, will produce nothing in Louisville, Mississippi...
...unequal groups. It is time to stop talking about integration in progressive terms while attending a convention up North and then keeping silent back home. It is time to begin planning for the community's future; whether it be the formation of a joint committee, the enfranchisement of the local Negroes, or the first unsteady, unsure steps of integration...
...Montgomery bus strike proves anything, it shows that no longer are the local whites going to "tell" the passive Negro what to do; in more and more instances they will discuss it mutually. Montgomery, in its quiet, spontaneous way, demonstrates that the Negro is attaining his political and economic potential...