Word: racial
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Congress shows little willingness to ease the Administration's difficulties. Top Democrats are openly perturbed. "I can't say things have been worse," says one National Committee official. Michigan's state party chairman, Zolton Ferency, predicts a Johnson defeat next year if Viet Nam and racial violence "are still with us and being badly handled by the President...
...resent Stokely setting himself up as a spokesman for Negroes," boomed Daniel ("Chappie") James Jr., 47, now a full colonel and the U.S. Air Force's hottest Negro combat pilot. "That s.o.b. is leading too many kids astray. Under the guise of civil rights, some people set the racial effort back 100 years." James is vice commander of the 8th Tactical Fighter Wing based in Thailand, and already has 56 sweeps over North Viet Nam under his belt. Until it was adopted by Black Power activists, a black panther was his personal trademark...
Britain's Race Relations Act forbids anyone from making public statements likely to incite racial hatred. It was passed in 1965, largely as a weapon against extremist white agitators and segregationists, and provided for maximum penalties of $2,800 fine and two years in jail. So far, the only convictions have been Colin Jordan, leader of Britain's neo-Nazi National Socialists, currently serving an 18-month sentence, and Jordan's assistant who was put on probation for three years...
...Wednesday's session John Ryan, former president of the Philadelphia Federation of Teachers explained how his union had used collective bargaining to develop "a rationalized system" for filling teacher vacancies which also helped adjust racial imbalance on school faculties...
Coles, whose study of ghetto children has taken him into Roxbury almost daily during the past three academic years, is convinced that the area is still one of the most explosive racial tinderboxes in the country...