Word: negroness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Burden of Proof. The 1965 statute was passed because the case-by-case enforcement suits initiated under earlier civil rights acts had proved inadequate to overcome Southern resistance to Negro voting. The law banned literacy tests in seven states where less than half the voting-age population was registered. It also allowed the Attorney General to assign federal examiners to observe elections in counties covered by the act. Most important, it forbade the affected states and counties to adopt new voting laws and procedures without the approval of the U.S. Attorney General, and thus placed on the states the burden...
...York has been particularly tense since the fight over neighborhood control of schools pitted Negro leaders, as well as city hall, against the heavily Jewish teachers' union (TIME cover, Jan. 31). For years, of course, neo-Nazi groups have also been taunting-and provoking-Jews...
...every Negro Christian would agree with this provocative, militant conclusion of Union Theological Seminary's James H. Cone. Today, however, the black churches of the U.S.- which have frequently been accused of excessive caution on civil rights - are rapidly catching up with the secular advocates of Black Power who have created such turmoil in the universities and urban ghettos...
...Faculty Audit Program, which plays host to 20 faculty members of Southern Negro Colleges. The faculty members in this program audit Summer School courses and also attend special seminars...
...Intensive Summer Studies Program, begun in 1966, which brings 70 students from Southern, predominantly Negro colleges to Cambridge for the summer. The students take one regular summer course, and also a special tutorial. (The program is a joint venture with Yale and Columbia, which also take a similar number of the students each summer...