Word: order
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cleveland, Carl Stokes, the nation's first black mayor of a major city, had the aid of white votes in winning a second term against a strong white challenger. In Buffalo, Mayor Frank Sedita, a middle-road Democrat, staved off a black independent challenger and a law-and-order Republican to keep his job-thanks to strong support from the city's blacks...
Both Holton and Battle are progressives in Virginia terms. They talked a moderate law-and-order line but sounded sympathetic toward the black's problems. They want the U.S. out of Viet Nam but on "honorable" terms. Those, however, were secondary issues compared with the food-tax dispute-Holton favored offsetting the regressive state levy with a rebate-and the Republicans' argument that it was time to make Virginia a two-party state...
Cleveland police-and many lower-middle-class whites-consider Stokes to have been too energetic in behalf of blacks. Two of his civil service commissioners have been indicted on charges of favoring Negro applicants to the police department. The Fraternal Order of Police took full-page newspaper ads to denounce the mayor. Ralph Perk, the Republican county auditor, seemed a candidate well equipped to benefit from Stokes' color and the old-country orientation of Cleveland's working-class population. Of Czech background. Perk is married to an Italian-American and has a daughter-in-law of Slovenian descent...
Under the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Executive Order 11246, all groups receiving Federal funds-including universities with Federal research contracts-must prove to the government that their employment policies guarantee equal opportunities for minority groups...
During the debate a wedge of paratroopers and Marshals was forming. One of the SDS announcers asked that a military spokesman talk with one of the demonstration leaders in order to avoid further casualties. After several attempts, it became clear that the military was not going to negotiate. The wedge started moving through the center of the crowd, hacking its way through the demonstrators and splitting them in half. A girl was slapped on the side of the head with a rifle and all of a sudden coke bottles, beer cans, pieces of wood, and stones flew into the phalanx...