Word: protesting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Prosperity and Protest" [April 14] is insufficiently researched...
...reminded almost daily of the Negro's checkered progress toward equality. Seldom, by contrast, are they apprised of the social and economic lag that afflicts the nation's second largest disadvantaged minority: the 4,677,000 Mexican-Americans of the U.S. Southwest-proud, poor and increasingly protest-minded. From the Rio Grande to the Russian River, in the bleak barrios of East Los Angeles and the tar-paper colonias of the San Joaquin Valley, the Mexican minority is struggling to articulate its anger...
...Radicals have no power base. Their number, while indeterminate, is obviously small. Still, they are a presence and a voice-partly because of the sheer energy of their commitment, which demands not just parlor protest but physical inconvenience as expressed in the sit-in, the demonstration, the march. They speak for the beleaguered individual in an impersonal society-whether Negro sharecropper, white welfare recipient, or campus dropout. Above all, they speak, or shout, against the Viet Nam war. Says Sociologist Daniel Bell: "At best, the New Left is all heart. At worst, it is no mind." They changed the temper...
This activity -- marches to city hall, for example, to protest poor housing by dropping rats at the Mayor's feet -- have won the antipoverty program few powerful friends. And most congressmen have heard loud and clear the squaks of mayors, landlords, and voters back home...
Both changes dilute what until now have been considered essential elements in the antipoverty program. Community Organization, where successful, was bound to lead demonstrations and protest, since associations of the poor would find the normal channels of complaint frustratingly slow and unproductive. The Job Corps was designed explicitly for the "disadvantaged" -- and themost disadvantaged would be precisely those who had records of "antisocial behavior." President Johnson may win time with these concessions, fighting a holding action against critics until he has resources and political support to expand the program. But he is abandoning the strategy that he hailed so confidently...