Word: racial
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reaction, especially in the South. Many standpatters have argued that the Kennedy and Johnson administrations have wanted nothing so much as the "mongrelization of the races." To them, the Rusks are knowing agents of this conspiracy. Yet the response was muted almost everywhere. Although sex is the most emotional racial bugaboo, an Atlanta advertising man pointed out that last week's cries of anguish were far fewer and quieter than in 1963, when Charlayne Hunter, who had helped integrate the University of Georgia, married the son of a prominent white Georgia family. Many parents in all parts...
Some prominent Negroes saw the wedding as an event of major social import. James Meredith proclaimed it "perhaps the most significant thing to date in Government to affect in a favorable way the racial situation in the Linked States." "To me," said John Johnson, publisher of Ebony, "the marriage is a measure of America's maturity, and it might help us in the eyes of the world." Judge Vaino Spencer, a Los Angeles municipal court judge who viewed the marriage both as a Negro and a woman, observed: "That two young, attractive, well-educated people, both from such nice...
Sweaty Hands & a Prize. Comfortably settled in an integrated Northeast Washington neighborhood, the Smiths enrolled their only child in the progressive Georgetown Day School, established in 1945 with the aim of forestalling any sense of racial separateness in children's minds. Guy was in a minority, but not by all that much: 30 of Georgetown Day's 100 pupils were Negroes...
Colliding Color Blurs. How much history? No one could say, least of all the principals. Historian Arnold Toynbee once mused that world peace could come from only two sources: world government or racial amalgamation. Which will take longer remains to be seen, and some experts predict a ten-century wait before the colors blend in the U.S. alone (see ESSAY...
...Blumenbach's century, other naturalists and philosophers disputed his arbitrary racial census; with equal arbitrariness, it has been reduced and expanded many times in the 192 years since. Sorting men into groups according to their differences may seem a simple task. But even now, anthropologists argue heatedly on how to do it. They have partitioned the human species into anywhere from two to 200 races; some anthropologists maintain that humanity cannot or should not be subdivided into races at all. The debate does not particularly concern the great majority of nonexperts. Man's eyes tell him that...