Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...agree with my party leader, Hubert Humphrey, that Howard Lee's victory over me in being elected mayor of the town of Chapel Hill is "a new breakthrough in Southern politics" [May 16]. For all of my adult life I have worked for the elimination of racial discrimination in this community, and I welcome the climate that has made it possible for a Negro to be elected to this town's highest office...
...hand to renew his friendship with Artist Boris Chaliapin. His portrait, Monk admitted, pleased him "more now than when I first saw it." HUD Secretary George Romney joined Senators Javits and Fulbright, along with CIA Director Richard Helms, former Defense Secretary Clark Clifford, the city's mayor, Walter Washington, and a roster of other notable guests...
...Negroes, sensing an opportunity to gain control of the city government in next May's elections, have reason for restraint; they wish to do nothing to help Anthony Imperiale, who bases his candidacy on white fear of the Negroes. Blacks in Cleveland are likely to reunite behind Negro Mayor Carl Stokes, who is up for re-election this fall. The mayoral campaign of Negro City Councilman Tom Bradley in Los Angeles has helped to rally that city's Negro community-and to raise black hopes for a more sympathetic city hall than Sam Yorty...
...triggered a night of looting and property damage, an all-black volunteer patrol worked with the police to check violence. Wearing yellow armbands for identification, the volunteers preceded the police in their sweeps through ghetto streets, warning residents to obey the 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. curfew imposed by Mayor Hugh Addonizio. The disorder abated quickly, without causing sympathy tremors in other New Jersey cities. In San Francisco, black clergymen, labor officials and professional people went out into the neighborhoods to help cool rising tempers following a police raid on Black Panther headquarters...
...really optimistic," says William Schindler of the New Detroit Committee, "that we're in for a calm time." Mayor John Ballard of Akron has ordered more frequent garbage collections and improvement of ghetto property. Atlanta Mayor Ivan Allen has opened "little city halls" in Negro districts...