Word: northerns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...always been easy to kick Mississippi," noted an Administration aide. "But this is a new ball game." Just how new, Northern Congressmen discovered last week as the House began debate on the Johnson Administration's 1966 civil rights bill, the third such measure in as many years and the first to take aim at discrimination against Negroes in the North...
...almost a year, Northern Ireland has been rocked by stabbings, shootings, bombings and riots that have left scores injured and three dead. Behind the trouble is a growing tension between Northern Ireland's 1,250,000 Protestants loyal to the Queen and the country's 500,000 Roman Catholics, who want closer ties with the Catholic-dominated Republic of Ireland. Last week Prime Minister Terence O'Neill's government took its first legal action against the man who has stirred up much of the recent trouble. He is big, garrulous Rev. Ian Paisley, 40, leader...
Because of its punitive tone, the bill provoked a strong protest in Washington. Approving an otherwise routine merger between the California Canadian Bank of San Francisco, owned by Toronto's Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, and the Northern California National Bank of San Mateo, of which Singer Bing Crosby is chairman, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. deplored "the apparent lack of reciprocal treatment" accorded U.S. banks in Canada...
...recent months, the survey represents the factual basis for an all-out Government attack on the racial imbalance of the nation's schools. Within the next few weeks, the Department of Health, Education and Welfare plans to organize a special section to investigate de facto segregation in Northern states. Legislation now before Congress would withdraw federal aid for a year from school districts failing to desegregate, and would provide $50 million in technical assistance to those that are actively correcting racial imbalance...
...COFO people come off as stereotypes of the Northern civil rights worker. (For some reason, incidentally, Sklar uses real organizations like COFO, but substitutes for the KKK or White Citizens' Council a group called the "Redeemers...