Word: racial
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...beatification that brought cheers from virtually every segment of the civil rights spectrum and should earn the Administration points among disenchanted Negro voters in next year's elections. "This has stirred pride in the breast of every black American," said Floyd McKissick, combative director of the Congress of Racial Equality...
...promises to oppose Marshall's confirmation-not because he is a Negro, insisted Thurmond, but because he is a "political liberal" and would strengthen the court's activists. Nonetheless, Marshall has firmly aligned himself with civil rights moderates, condemning among other things the black power movement and racial violence in the slums. Senate Mi nority Leader Everett Dirksen, predicting that Marshall will be confirmed without difficulty, noted: "He's a good lawyer. The fact of his color should make no difference...
...midst of the week's melees, a score of Negro leaders representing every stripe, from the moderation of Roy Wilkins to the militance of Floyd McKissick, met outside New York City. Their agreed aim was to head off further racial eruptions this summer, and after the meeting Wilkins issued a "red alert" to the N.A.A.C.P.'s 1,500 chapters. "Don't just be against riots," Wilkins urged, "be active in preventing them." He announced that bumper stickers would be issued with slogans such as BRICKS THROUGH WINDOWS DON'T OPEN DOORS...
...resident in New Haven before returning to Utah. In addition to his medical practice, he is a clinical instructor in the University of Utah Medical School and Director of the Medical Education Committee of the Latter Day Saints Hospital. A Morman, he also serves on the Community Council for Racial Equality...
Most Bostonians were surprised. Boston had been almost unique among Northern cities with large Negro populations in that it had experienced no riots or other serious racial outbreaks. Even last summer when relatively minor incidents triggered violence across the country, Boston and Roxbury weathered problems that elsewhere would have easily provoked violence. Late in the suumer, firemen turned their hoses during two consecutive nights on demonstrators who had built a bonfire to protest inadequate street-cleaning. Not many days later, police shot down an unarmed teenager on Blue Hill Ave. Both times there was talk of riot, but quiet action...