Word: racial
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...race or religion, and with society's blessings. A time when persons of diverse backgrounds will marry and go unnoticed by the nation's news media, and the wagging tongues of our populace. When that day arrives, then we will indeed have won the battle against racial and religious intolerance...
...would readily identify as the same kind of liberal who has been much in evidence for the past seven years. Moreover the war in Asia is likely to go on many more years, although possibly in different forms. And most importantly, the violence in our cities, tensions between racial and ethnic groups, is just as likely to go on, and if anything get worse. (As indeed the war could get worse.) What, as someone once said, is to be done...
Analyzing the government failure, some experts throw up their hands and argue you can't please everyone. They blame the impasse on the British. Colonial administrators, they contend, designed African states for their own convenience, disregarding economic and racial factors. Then the British cut colonial ties and let their fledglings sink...
...social evils of the age. Precisely how to implement that conviction proved to be a major issue at the opening sessions of the church's triennial General Convention in Seattle last week. In his opening state-of-the-church address, Presiding Bishop John E. Hines declared that the racial crisis "can be as fatal to the well-being of this nation as anything short of a nuclear holocaust" and proposed that the church spend $3 million a year in poverty programs for urban ghettos. Hines also invited other faiths to join Episcopalians in a "fullscale mobilization of our resources...
Hines's proposal gained immediate support from the Episcopal Society for Cultural and Racial Unity, a militantly antisegregationist pressure group that includes 55 bishops among its members. Episcopalians saw some possible pitfalls in their bishop's poverty campaign. "This money is to be given with no strings attached, and that's a big order for some to swallow," said California's progressive Bishop C. Kilmer Myers, who supports the proposal but thinks it will have trouble being approved. The Rev. James Brice Clark of Nebraska asked: "Why should the church put money into poverty projects when...