Word: racial
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wounds received while fighting an enemy of the U.S., returns to his home only to find bigotry on the part of state employees and fellow police cadets while pursuing a course at a state institution. This story does not end at the state police academy near Charleston. The prevailing racial attitude of the remaining twenty-two cadets, if permitted to complete the course, will most certainly be reflected in the way they carry out their duties as police officers...
Thus, in the event of racial violence in the cities, it will ultimately be the na ion's most thoroughly integrated institution - the Army - that will be called upon to establish order...
HIGH SCHOOLS Teen-Agers on the Rampage A rash of violence, most of it racial, is spreading among high schools from California to Maine. Last week police patrolled high schools in New Haven, Conn., to prevent a revival of fist-swing ing, china-shattering riots that had erupted in the cafeterias of two schools the week before, disrupting classes and causing 30 arrests. About the same time, most of the 2,372 students of Chicago's predominantly Negro Dunbar Vocational High rallied in the streets, stopped traffic, threw rocks at cars; many abandoned classes...
Other clashes seemed to be simpler cases of racial antagonism. The Springfield fight followed heckling by white students of Negro youths seeking service at a nearby cafe. In the Chicago suburb of Maywood, the failure of a student selection committee at Proviso East High to nominate a single Negro girl for homecoming queen set off a protest rally in which some 500 youths hurled bottles at police...
...success in several Democratic primaries in 1964 proves that blue-collar workers will vote for him. Naturally, explosive riots this summer would reinforce racial antagonisms and create instant converts to the Wallace banner. But he also received substantial support from Republican suburbs in his 1964 primary races, and Nixon's calculations ignore the possibility that middle-class suburbanites might desert the Republican nominee for Wallace almost as readily as blue-collar workers dump Johnson...