Word: racial
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...divorced a Negro and later married a white woman, explaining blithely that he "wanted to be fair to both races." Negro-white miscegenation, in fact, had a brief vogue after the Civil War and then declined until the post-World War II period, when gradual loosening of racial sanctions chipped further at the taboo...
Expounding on Mrs. Hicks' victory, her supporters attributed the 48-year-old South Boston grandmother's appeal to being "the people's candidate," and denied it was based on racial prejudice...
...scion of an old, well-established Boston political family, White is no parochial Bostonian. He combines an ability to do business with district ward-heelers and a keen, compassionate sense of the city's racial problems. There is no doubt that the progress of the New Boston--with infusions of new business and federal aid--will continue under White's shrewd leadership...
...city's racial problems grow more heated, as the power of the Central Business District bankers and businessmen grows greater, and as the city's people grow more confused by the demands placed on them by society and the Commonwealth, the need for a sensitive, knowledgeable, patient Mayor increases. Only one candidate has these qualities and the confidence of the city's district leaders--Kevin H. White. turning film, but there has not been the kind of reaction that Watkins hoped for. Nor will there be. And this, as much as the torn limbs of the dead and the dead...
...AAAAS began as it pretends to be now: an attempt to unite Negro and African students along lines advocated by international civil rights leaders such as Malcolm X and James Foreman. The solidarity was useful to both sides. Africans could mount pressure on the Federal Government about American racial injustices, while American Negroes sought to make the U.S. take a more enlightened view toward Africa...