Word: lot
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Columbia. And that lesson was pretty much embodied in our slogan, which was 'up against the wall, motherfucker." The slogan very clearly defined the enemy. It says you're there; and we're here." What the slogan really means is "we've got power, too." Rudd has a lot of ideas; but they are all jumbled...
WHEN Ed School students and Faculty fled Cambridge and the summer heat last June, a lot of them weren't sure exactly what they'd be returning to in the fall. The death of Martin Luther King had set off what appeared to be a tidal wave of reform at the school of Education. The Faculty had voted to fund the studies of minority group students, fifty of whom were recruited by late May. Dean Theodore R. Sizer received a comprehensive mandate from the Faculty for reforming the Ed School's urban program, and with tradition everywhere in retreat, groups...
...reform movement but feels it's unavoidable. "You don't change universities from the top," says Sizer. "The head is -- to mix a metaphor -- a sort of catalytic traffic cop, giving the nod to some things, stopping others. It's always sloppy and irregular movement on a lot of fronts." Also, for all their shouting last spring, MAT's have been less than hungry for opportunities to work in the field and intern in the ghettos (25 out of 150 interns is not overwhelming). C-2, the field work course, had room for 60 students but got only 50 applications...
...Negro leaders in the South know all too well, this is a showdown that will pass virtually unnoticed in the North. Things have changed a lot since 1954. Then Northern families could see clearly-cut right and wrong. It wasn't hard to sense that the timid black children were right, and that the thick-necked Southern police were wrong...
...reason that Wallace backed down was that he and everyone else saw quickly that Freedom of Choice wasn't much more of a threat than the old '54 order had been. Because a black kid who was theoretically "free" to choose his school could be convinced in a lot of ways that he shouldn't choose the white schools. Teachers and students could make it pretty miserable for pioneering black students. If that did not give them the idea, employers and merchants could subtly let black parents know that their economic future would be brighter if their children "chose...