Word: progressing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...House irresponsibly appropriated only $1.6 billion, lowest sum in the program's 21-year history and $1.3 billion less than President Johnson's bare-bones request. Development loan funds were hacked from the $765 million asked for by the Administration to only $265 million. The Alliance for Progress got only $290 million of a requested $625 million, which touched off bitter complaints all over Latin America...
...violence in those days was absorbed in the onward rush of American life and the abiding faith in progress. Violence today is different, compressed in vast, complex, overcrowded cities; and blacks are not immigrants nor do they share the immigrants' optimism. Actually there are signs at present that black riots are abating. Despite the chain reaction of violence in April, after Martin Luther King's assassination, the Justice Department counted 25 "serious to major" disturbances from June through August, compared with 46 during the same three-month period last year. The number of deaths went down from...
...concern with the war was so great that he, Rusk and McNamara were choosing at Tuesday lunches all the sites to be bombed for the coming week. This was simply more detail than he could handle, and with his vast responsibilities he had little time to follow the progress of peace initiatives. The one bureaucratic agency which could have coordinated the peace and war efforts, the Vietnam Working Group at the Vietnam desk of the State Department, had become by this time little more than a propaganda organ which sent its members around the country defending Administration policy...
...there was one area where tokenism was not acceptable. Complete integration of the schools -- not merely the few black faces dotting the formerly-white classrooms -- was essential, the key to all future progress...
Things changed under Kennedy, but still there was little progress being made. Individual blacks made it into Ole Miss and the University of Alabama, but the majority of black children still grew up and were miseducated in black schools. It wasn't until 1962 that the next real step came: the advent of the wholesome-sounding Freedom Of Choice plan...