Word: racial
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...muffle train noise. Atop the vault would run a traffic-free pedestrian mall dotted with shops, restaurants, theaters and schools and connected to new mixed-income housing on either side. Since the new Harlem apartment buildings would be bigger than the tenements they replace, the planners hope to encourage racial integration. Moreover, because the project would be built in stages, people living in the path of construction could immediately move into adjacent completed portions, thus minimizing urban renewal's thorniest political and human problem-relocation...
...about the inferior status of Negroes in the Mormon Church. "I was raised in the conviction that the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution are divinely inspired documents of the Creator, and all mankind is the child of God with basic rights," he said. "I have fought to eliminate racial discrimination. I want to be judged on the basis of my actions rather than someone's idea of what the precepts of my faith are." It was a confrontation reminiscent of John Kennedy's with the Greater Houston Ministerial Association in 1960, where Kennedy convinced many skeptical Protestants...
Dutchman is a racial shocker that slams through the spectator like a volt jolt from the third rail. Adapted for $60,000 from LeRoi Jones's one-act play, the film describes in 55 minutes the brutal brief encounter between a black man and a white woman who meet in a subway car somewhere under Manhattan. The man (Al Freeman Jr.) looks like a young intellectual; the woman (Shirley Knight) acts like a maniac in a miniskirt. Smiling and snarling, she flops down beside him and slides her thigh against his thigh. When he stammers, she strokes his lips...
...Hicks the approval of the Committee's new plan, which includes busing programs and construction proposals, meant the end of a four-year battle to keep the School Committee from acknowledging, in any way, the harmful effects of racial imbalance...
...beginning of the campaign in September, Mrs. Hicks recognized the vote-getting value or her stand and expanded her refusal to discuss de facto segregation to include a ban on talk of racial imbalance. In November, she led the ticket. This victory re-enforced her feelings on the righteousness of her stand and opened her ears to talk of higher office. Since then Mrs. Hicks has successfully exploited every chance to draw attention to and exacerbate the strife between herself and Boston's Negro community...