Word: racial
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Martin Luther King called the three elections a "one-two-three punch against backlash and bigotry." Massachusetts' Senator Edward Brooke, who made his own racial breakthrough last year, said that "It showed the American Negro what he can achieve through lawful means." And A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany pronounced that "American voters have rejected racism as a political issue...
...addition to the relation of the University and the war, the Dunster men recommended that the committee discuss charges that Harvard has financial involvements with firms that practice racial discrimination...
...fact like life in any other large town of the Deep South, and New Orleaneans are much like the townsfolk of other Deep South towns. They are conservative. On foreign policy they support the Administration's Vietnam stand. At home they oppose federal meddling, and on the racial question they are paranoid...
...concession speech, "The world is rotten; rotten right to the middle of the core. It's really rotten." The last few hears haven't been good ones for the people who supported Louise Day Hicks; first the Establishment got the Commonwealth to overturn the Neighborhood School idea with the racial imbalance law; and last night it spoiled the victory party by getting Kevin White elected Mayor. "The Establishment--you know, the bankers and the reporters," said a lady in a frilly blue party dress, "that's what licked...
...White is no parochialist. He recognizes how bad Boston public schools are, and has resolved to make them better. White has shown a sympathy for the problems of racial minorities with a series of sensible position papers asking for neighborhood social service centers and similar improvements. He has the confidence of the financial community which has helped rebuild Boston and whose help the city will have to enlist in taking on urban problems that still remain...