Word: race
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sixteenth running of the $100.000 added Woodward Stakes Saturday was listed simply as the seventh race. Arts and Letters won in a canter. At the eighth pole Baeza whispered in his ear and the colt responded by taking the lead away from the honest Nodouble...
...tend to respect U Mass a little bit more than Providence since they have two top men." McCurdy said Thursday. Wayne set a fast early pace in the Northeastern Track Club open meet recently and finished second in the five-mile race. He was fifth and Duarte was eighth in the meet with Harvard last fall...
McCurdy said his team might be looking past this meet to next Friday's important race against Penn. With a flock of sophomores from last year's unbeaten freshman team. Penn coach Jim Tuppeny has one of the strongest squads in the East...
...Negroes account for only 1½% of the 15,000 members of building unions in Boston. In Chicago, there are three "minority" journeymen among 900 boilermakers, two among 625 elevator constructors, and only one among 400 glaziers. Industrial unions sometimes have separate lines of promotion and seniority based on race. Nepotism, though on the wane today, has long been the principal way to gain admission to scores of union locals. Notably in craft unions, organized labor does not discriminate just against Negroes; it discriminates against almost everybody by trying to keep the labor pool lower than the number of available...
Despite federal court rulings that race must not be a consideration in promotions, assignments or seniority, the United Papermakers angrily threatened to strike Crown Zellerbach's plant at Bogalusa, La., after the company agreed to end discrimination. After a lengthy legal battle, five New Jersey locals of the International Association of Bridge, Structural and Ornamental Iron Workers agreed for the first time in 1966 to admit Negroes into apprenticeship training. Today, only a handful of blacks have broken into the locals...