Word: racial
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...School Committee submitted last month what was clearly its final offer. It was approved by the State Board of Education last Wednesday. Now, the fight is over--at least for the next six months, until the School Committee has to submit a new year's plan to correct racial imbalance...
...plan lists some short-term proposals which, the Committee alleges, will "immediately reduce" racial imbalance. Three schools in Roxbury will be closed and the 611 affected students will be bused to generally white schools. This will, it is true, almost double the amount of students the School Committee presently buses out of the ghetto and will mark the first time the Committee has transferred students for the avowed purpose of increasing racial balance. It does not, unfortunately, alter the Committee's refusal to support anything more than small-scale redistribution projects...
...ASPAU students have to adjust as Negroes as well as individuals. Director Moll indicated there did not seem to be any strong geographic pattern to racial prejudice encountered by African students in the United States. Some campuses, like the University of Kansas at Lawrence -- "not a place you'd expect to be particularly cosmopolitan," says Moll--give the Africans a "marvelous" reception. Students have also commented favorably on the atmosphere in Atlanta, while there are "real social problems" in Oregon, he says...
Liberator now claims a circulation of 15,000, mostly in Harlem. Its only importance, as far as Negro Psychologist Kenneth Clark is concerned, is that it shows "Negroes are no more immune to racial hatred and anti-Semitism than are whites...
...Southern Courier. As with the Courier's other seven reporters (all of them in their late teens to mid-twenties), her job is to look in on events that no other newspaper in Alabama would deign to cover -- demonstrations by civil rights organizations, plans of anti-poverty agencies, racial killings, piecemeal gains in integration, and the oddities of Alabama life that are galling to Negroes but to which whites are generally oblivious...