Word: negroness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...isolated phenomenon, and illustrated what is shaping up as a comeback of Trumanesque proportions. Just two months ago, Lindsay's re-election chances were being written off as almost hopeless. Reviled in much of his own city, the target of a middle-class revolt that had anti-Negro undertones, rejected in the Republican Party primary, the ambitious, activist mayor seemed almost destined to lose. Waiting to restore Democratic rule was bumptious, volatile Comptroller Mario Procaccino, who proclaimed himself the champion of the "average man" (TIME cover...
...Center will house the two black publications at Harvard, L'Ouverture and the Journal for Negro Affairs. L'Ouverture, the Harvard newsletter for black students, recently published a poll on the Center. The Journal is a collection of essays, poetry and stories written by black students...
...long dominant coalition of white industrialists and black business and professional leaders is fractured. Though a Negro, Attorney Maynard Jackson, was elected vice mayor on Oct. 7, this week's run-off election does not focus on race. It pits a handsome Democratic liberal, the outgoing vice mayor, Sam Massell, 42, against a personable moderate Republican, Rodney Cook, 45, who is both a city alderman and a state legislator. Blacks are expected to vote heavily for Massell, while Atlanta's white business community supports Cook...
Mayor Sedita's chances are also hurt by the third candidate, Ambrose Lane, 34, a Negro who has headed antipoverty programs in the area. Running as an in dependent, Lane has little chance himself, but could draw black votes from Sedita. An effective mayor who has improved race relations and helped cut crime, Sedita is in such trouble that both Hubert Humphrey and Democratic National Chairman Fred Harris have come to campaign...
...ordinary parishioners. As a celebrity, he attracted large crowds wherever he went. He urged people to write to him personally about their problems, but when they wrote, they got form letters in reply. Many in his flock felt that he took too strong a position in support of Negro causes, notably a protest group's demand for 600 jobs at Eastman Kodak Co. Parishioners were angered and protested vigorously when he donated church property to the Federal Government last year without consulting them. Finally discouraged, Bishop Sheen pleaded during a 40-minute audience with the Pope last...