Word: racial
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Jamaica Rifle and Pistol Club, RAM members were drawing up a plot to assassinate N.A.A.C.P. Executive Director Roy Wilkins, Urban League Executive Director Whitney Young Jr. and at least three other moderate Negro leaders. The apparent idea was to blame the killings on whites and inspire nationwide racial uprisings. The only hitch in RAM's secret plans was that New York City police had been chronicling its activities for two years and had apparently infiltrated a Negro rookie cop into the group. Throughout the U.S., according to the FBI, the organization has an active membership of about...
Something was in fact being done to avert racial violence in the slums this summer...
...fall. He asked the board to consider establishing educational parks, to pair schools for "maximum" integration, and to "anticipate the possibility of" a student-exchange program with predominantly white suburban school districts. Such cooperation, of course, would require mass bussing, which is both expensive and inconvenient. Conceding that absolute racial balance is impossible, Wright stressed that the immediate need was for more money to improve the quality of education in schools that remain segregated...
...recent years, the court had several times passed up the chance to slap down interracial marriage bans. Presented squarely with the issue, however, the court was ringingly clear. "There can be no doubt," wrote Warren, "that restricting the freedom to marry solely because of racial classifications violates the central meaning of the equal protection clause" of the 14th Amendment. No state antimiscegenation law will be able to stand in view of that unqualified, uncompromising finding...
...First Cry gains its greatest power when it abandons trickery and makes surprisingly caustic side excursions into everyday life in Czechoslovakia: the ugly racial prejudice that surfaces when a black African stays too long in a phone booth and precipitates a fight; the prudish moralism of a policeman who makes Abrhám turn the painting of a nude face down; the arrogance of a movie critic who puts down a "bourgeois Italian film" while ogling a couple of girls in bathing suits. Like many films about the young by the young, The First Cry counts somewhat less...