Word: racial
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Critics of Professor Shockley [Feb. 3] unjustly claim that he seeks evidence for Negro inferiority to foster racial bias. There may be biological as well as environmental bases for social problems involving many individual Negroes. It may be that one means to equality of achievement for Negroes as a "racial" group is biological, i.e., by positive eugenics or by biological engineering when means are developed. Social actions are being taken on the basis of whether persons are white or Negro rather than on the basis of their individuality, and actions are being taken on the assumption that if environments...
...votes for civil rights proposals are as certain as anything about him. Even so, his views on the issue do not reflect self-consciousness about his race. "It's not purely a Negro problem. It's a social and economic problem?an American problem," he says. He sees racial problems as essentially a conflict between "haves and have-nots," rather than between blacks and whites. He has been stonily hostile toward the concept of black power. "That slogan has struck fear in the heart of black America as well as in the heart of white America," says Brooke. "The civil...
Boston Mayor John Collins, rather than worry about integrating the city's school system, has decided to try to blunt the cutting edge of the Commonwealth's racial imbalance law. He is asking the General Court for permission to borrow $6.3 million to cover funds withheld by the state last year, when Boston failed to submit a satisfactory plan for integration; that permission should be refused...
...historic racial imbalance law has but one sanction against a thoroughly intractable school committee like Boston's: the cancellation of state aid. For the legislature to allow Boston to duck the only penalty that can be invoked under the act would be, in effect, to abolish it altogether...
Weeksbefore the Negro ghetto of los Angeles erupted in violence, intense debate over how to handle such racial powder kegs was under way deep inside the Johnson administration...