Word: racial
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Negroes blamed police for aggravating Newark's riot, the police blamed "outside agitators." Mayor Hugh Addonizio, for his part, blamed the absence of Negro leadership. "He assumes Negroes are sheep to be led by one man or one group," snapped Andrew Washington of the Newark-Essex Congress of Racial Equality. Another Negro, one of some 900 who assembled in Newark for a conference on black power, told the New York Times: "There was only one man who could have walked on Springfield Avenue and said, 'Brothers, cool it.' That was Malcolm X. We have no such leaders...
...city life, so do most of the things that make the U.S. tick. Fully 90% of the gross national product comes out of the cities; most of America's ideas are thought up in the cities, most of the culture is centered there. Yet in a summer of racial wrath that has already shaken dozens of American cities, the problems of urban life suddenly seem all but insuperable...
Their rooms overflowed with a collection of 25,000 records. They invited touring musicians to the embassy near Sheridan Circle for noisy Sunday after noon jam sessions. They flouted the racial mores of the day in Washington by staging jazz concerts before mixed audiences. Their mother nervously told friends that the boys were "doing research in American folk music." The ambassador kept telling himself it was a passing fancy...
...crowd of 25,000 packing Rio's Maracanazinho Stadium included favela dwellers and members of Brazil's lower middle class, their swarthy faces reflecting their country's racial mix. Decorously dressed in black suits and flowered dresses, they were moved by evangelical zeal: when a 2,000-voice choir began to sing, everyone joined in. Afterward, a trickle of shouted individual prayers grew into a waterfall roar. Last week's rally, at the Eighth Pentecostal World Conference, eloquently illustrated the power and missionary success of one of the century's fastest-growing religious movements...
Died. Albert John Luthuli, 69, Africa's first native Nobel laureate (for peace, in 1960), and one of its most articulate champions of racial equality; of head injuries when he was struck by a train; near Stanger, South Africa. A teacher at Natal's all-black Adams College, Luthuli first rose to world notice in 1952 by helping to organize a defiant but nonviolent campaign against South Africa's hated apartheid, to which the government reacted by stripping him of his Zulu tribal chieftainship, and finally, in 1959, virtually banishing him to his isolated farm, where...