Word: racial
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first formulated her own conclusions about the government's apartheid policies when she lectured on economic development at Witwatersrand University. Making a study of the benefits of using non-white labor for professional jobs, Mrs. Suzman concluded that the recognition of South Africa as a multi-racial society was a necessity for the future development of the country's modern industry...
...there is a new group of white Americans who have been forced into seeing the logic of apartheid. Commenting on the Black Muslims in the U.S., Mrs. Suzman said that it is interesting to see the many elements they have in common with the Afrikaner; they both call for racial division and separate but equal development...
Johnson's loudest applause-after the round that greeted his support for higher police pay-was evoked by his condemnation of racial violence in the slums. "Much can explain but nothing can justify the riots of 1967," he said. Condemning Black Power agitators, "whose interests lay in provoking others to destruction while they fled its consequences," Johnson declared: "These wretched, vulgar men-these poisonous propagandists-posed as spokesmen for the underprivileged and capitalized on the real grievances of the suffering people...
...black v. white. Negroes constitute a 55% majority of the population, but whites and Negroes are about equal in registration-and Krupa, who happens also to be county clerk, is not about to open the rolls for a new registration drive. While Republican Radigan has so far avoided the racial issue, his color says enough for many Garyites, and the city's white Democrats, who voted overwhelmingly for George Wallace in the 1964 presidential primary, may well decide to switch party affiliation...
...Horwitz, a novelist (The Inhabitants) and former welfare investigator in New York City, has not bothered to draw characters or write a plot. His people speak strictly in paragraphs, the blacks detailing their misery, the whites chittering on about the hopelessness of it all and concocting theories about a racial murder. The book is written in honest wrath, but Horwitz is one of those whites who have begun to see themselves as "Char-iey"-and to feel a self-contempt as deep as that of many Negroes. It is a paralyzing inversion...