Word: racial
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Debris & Malaise. In particular, Mayor Locher has done little to implement the ambitious urban renewal project promised for Hough six years ago, and the section remains a garbage-strewn jungle. Exacerbating racial unrest over slum conditions, Locher (rhymes with poker), a Rumanian-born attorney and friend of former Mayor, now Senator, Frank Lausche, recently ordered a harsh crackdown on Negro demonstrators. "Fill every jail, if necessary," he said. The panic implied in that pronouncement was summed up last week by Chicago Sun-Times Reporter Morton Kondracke, who concluded from a five-week nationwide tour of the urban ghettos: "In Cleveland...
...voters. According to the California Real Estate Association, it left the state "neutral" in real estate dealings. Its terms were the terms of personal freedom in the use and disposition of private property. It also wiped out the provisions of the Unruh and Rumford acts, which banned racial discrimination in the renting of apartments and in the sale or rental of private dwellings containing more than four units. By an overwhelming vote of almost 2 to 1, the electorate approved Proposition 14, which became Section 26 of the California constitution...
...twenty years later but from the contemporary Hollywood of the late 40's. There is no reason why, in the context of this one picture, Preminger had to tackle the great social questions of the South. His two leading characters were fascinating enough for him to have avoided treating racial questions at all. But as long as he chose to get at virtually everything within reach, he was obligated to come up with a better diagnosis than he did. As it is, to appreciate what is good in Hurry Sundown (and there is without a doubt plenty that is good...
Wallace ticket could siphon off many Yorty votes and even come out ahead. Wallace pulled between 29.8% and 42.8% in three 1964 presidential primaries largely because of racial backlash; in a Referendum the same year, California voters went against open housing, 2 to 1. A Wallace plurality would not endanger Johnson's renomination, of course, but it would be a serious blow to his prestige in a year that promises to be tough enough for the Democrats nationally...
Keeping the World. The Y.W. annual convention in 1946 formally banned racial discrimination. Association officials admit with some embarrassment that eleven Southern associations still operate segregated activities, but these have now been threatened with expulsion unless they change their ways. Last month the Y.W. elected its first Negro president, Mrs. Robert W. Claytor, the wife of a Grand Rapids physician. Mrs. Claytor sees her election as simply part of the general process of "barrier breaking" that has been going on in the Y.W. for decades...