Word: negroness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...releasing the Arkansas and Louisiana figures, an EEOC official said that "it is difficult for us to avoid the conclusion that the companies are guilty of severe discrimination against Negro employees...
Last week a carefully argued memo, written by Moynihan and intended for the President only, was leaked to the press - and created a furor. Countering the present pessimism about civil rights, Moynihan told Nixon that Negroes, in fact, made "extraordinary progress" during the 1960s. The family income of blacks considerably increased; the number of Negroes in professional and technical jobs doubled. Moynihan allowed that bitter hostility toward whites was widespread among young blacks and that the Nixon Administration had done little to reassure the Negro community. Nevertheless, he wondered if it was not time for "a period of 'benign...
There is nothing new in Pat Moynihan's sparking controversy. His memos have a habit of finding their way into print. Back in 1965, when he was an Assistant Secretary of Labor, he wrote a confidential report on the state of the Negro family; one of the chief factors condemning Negroes to poverty, he argued, was the unstable matriarchy created by the absence of fathers in so many homes. When the report got into the press, blacks and whites alike hotly denounced Moynihan for emphasizing black culpability more than white discrimination. In a book published last year, Maximum Feasible...
...that she lost a few bars because she could not see the conductor's baton. Subsequent triumphs at the San Francisco and Chicago Lyric Operas, Covent Garden and La Scala were proof of her versatility. In 1960, back in the U.S., she married Henry Lewis, a young Negro who now is conductor of the New Jersey Symphony. Though her white friends warned her against it, black-white hostilities have been little problem. What caused a strain, Marilyn admits, was not an interracial marriage but an interartistic marriage. "We stay away from each other before concert time," she says. "Until...
...aware of an impending educational crisis, Conant pointed out that an integrated democracy would be impossible without basic reform of public secondary education. "Social dynamite," he wrote in 1961, "is building up in our large cities in the form of unemployed out-of-school youth, especially in the Negro slums...