Word: northerns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Negro leaders in the South know all too well, this is a showdown that will pass virtually unnoticed in the North. Things have changed a lot since 1954. Then Northern families could see clearly-cut right and wrong. It wasn't hard to sense that the timid black children were right, and that the thick-necked Southern police were wrong...
Even before the white backlash set in, a number of other factors had conspired to make the Southern "racial situation" less visible than it had been in the '50's. After the civil rights acts passed in the early '60's, most Northern whites breathed a sigh of moral relief. Most of the tangible evidences of bigotry were gone: federal inspectors found few "Colored" drinking fountains left. The "White Only" posters were reluctantly removed from the train stations and busses; the black names made their way onto the voting lists; and whites and blacks settled down to the teeth-gritting...
...Southern Negroes soon realized that these tentative victories were in reality a setback. The evening TV news report had been one of the civil rights movement's primary weapons, but now much of its punch was gone. There were no more marches, few boycotts, little redneck backlash. The white Northern conscience turned to other things. Students began to work against the war; white liberals set to work in the ghettos. With no tangible goblins to fight, the Southern Negroes struggled for ways to keep the nation's support mobilized...
...taxes about as high (in addition to income taxes averaging 30%, Swedes pay a painful 11% sales tax on all retail purchases). Last week Economics Minister Krister Wickman announced the Cabinet's intention to begin putting the state's huge pension funds in northern industries, a move that will give the government a considerably larger stake in Swedish industry than the 5% it now controls...
...else outside their native land. These are the fresco paintings of Italy, some of the transcendent achievements of the Italian Renaissance. For centuries, art lovers have had to admire them by reputation and reproduction. To see them firsthand required a trip to Italy. Before oil painting was imported from Northern Europe and the artist's vision shrank to the size of canvases that could be moved from wall to wall, the greatest Gothic and Renaissance artists decorated entire cathedrals, cloisters and chapels with floor-to-ceiling murals illustrating religious legend with robust humanistic imagery. Because these pageants were done...