Word: michely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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MILLICENT C. LEUBA Birmingham, Mich...
...Flint, Mich., Negro Mayor Floyd J. McCree sadly announced that he was quitting his largely ceremonial, $9.23-a-week post because the city council had voted down an open-housing ordinance. "I'm not going to sit up here and live an equal-opportunity lie," said McCree. Flint (pop. 205,000) was the first major American city to boast a Negro mayor...
Also symptomatic of the public pressure on Viet Nam policy was the response of the parents of a Navy corpsman killed at Con Thien, near the bloodily contested Demilitarized Zone. Returning a letter of condolence sent them by President Johnson, Mr. and Mrs. Lester Laning of Muskegon, Mich., wrote: "We cannot in good conscience accept your letter of sympathy because we believe that you, as President of this great country, are in part responsible for the death of our son because of your refusal to permit our airmen to bomb strategic targets in North Viet Nam." The doubt was reinforced...
Defiance is also widespread in rural Bible belt areas of the Midwest. One sur vey, for example, indicates that more than half of the school districts in In diana observe periods of prayer and one-third continue Bible reading. When some parents of children in a Jennison, Mich., school objected to classroom prayer, the school board rejected their complaints. In the Southwest, one count shows that Bible readings were held in 79.9% of the Texas secondary schools, prayers were said in 89.5%. In the East, where 68% of the schools had Bible reading and prayer in 1962, most have abandoned...
Dearborn, Mich...