Word: overtness
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Hollowell speculated after the trial that perhaps even Baker County, the bedrock of primitivism and overt brutality, would less frequently be the scene of gratuitous violence by so-called law-enforcement officials...
...assess prospective jurors, a research team working under the auspices of New Jersey's Fairleigh Dickinson University persuaded some 500 persons of varied backgrounds to take an elaborate test designed to reveal prejudices that might affect their judgment as jurors. The test was set up to detect both "overt" and "covert" prejudices. The findings, released this week, include a lot of surprises about who is, or is not, biased toward whom...
...OCCUPATION. The occupational groups against which prejudice is most widespread are government officials and labor union executives. The most prejudiced occupational group among those covered in the study: salesmen, by far. The salesmen, as a group, showed virtually no overt prejudices, but they revealed secret prejudices against the unemployed, people with low incomes and people of Latin or Eastern European origins. The findings also indicate that, as jurors, salesmen tend to be prejudiced in favor of women...
...Northerners, principally through our newspapers, gather the impression that every Southerner is ignorant, an oppressor and a bigot, while we are tolerant and understanding. We are patting ourselves on the back without justification. While discrimination against the Negro in the South is of an overt nature, here it lurks stealthily underground, and it is concealed by our hypocritical behavior...
...captain demanded their parade permit. They had none. Seeing the fire hoses, they knelt in silence as a Negro minister solemnly began to pray: "Let them turn their water on. Let them use their dogs. We are not leaving. Forgive them, O Lord." Suddenly, inexplicably, in a moment of overt mercy, Bull Connor waved the Negroes through the police line. He allowed them 15 minutes of hymns and prayer in a small park near the city jail; inside, behind bars, hundreds of other Negroes could hear the singing. Returning to the church, the demonstrators were told that Negro children would...