Word: movements
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Thieu, the rumors that a settlement was closer created other worries. He believes that now is the time to pressure the enemy rather than concede anything, but he is being forced to accept the reality of the peace drive. There were reports of a new Buddhist-led peace movement, and he was likely to be the target...
...constituency of lower-middle class wage-earners in the big industrial cities. Although they affect the same concerns--one farmer from near Harrisburg told me that he was afraid that rioters were going to come and burn down his barn--they have little else in common, and the Wallace movement is related to them in different ways. It depends on the middle-class right-wingers for money, and on the blue-collar workers for the mass support which has transformed Wallace from a regional to a national figure...
Bond sat calmly, with an air of detachment as a nervous student gave a brief biographical sketch of Julian Bond: "Charter member of SNCC...major tactician for the civil rights movement in the early sixties...hero of the new left...rebel in the bastion of southern politics...member of the Georgia legislature...controversal figure in the Democratic Convention...
...When those little black girls walked even amidst turmoil into those schools in Little Rock and Birmingham, we all thought that it was a new day. We built our hope out of protest: in the movement in the early sixties, in protesting the war, in rallying around McCarthy...
...Bond's reflections and summary were not a terminal prognosis; they were a point of departure. he began to talk about what had to be done from this point on; and he sounded like a Julian Bond of the Movement's best and worst times--the tactician, plotting new directions, tackling the problem head...