Word: racial
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...violate the establishment clause because their prime purpose is secular rather than sectarian. While religious organizations get a tax break, the general public gets an even bigger break through such church activities as aid to the poor and aged, day nurseries, care of the sick, and efforts to eliminate racial inequalities. Said the Maryland decision: "The performance of these functions by private agencies saves the state the expense of providing the same services...
...central character is Carter Jones, splendidly sung by Negro Baritone McHenry Boatwright. Schuller sees Jones as "the type of Negro whose personal and racial characteristics have become undefined because of attempts over the years to adapt himself to the dominating social order. He simply wants to lead a decent life in an indecent society. " Onstage, that society is represented by a gang of white toughs, in an unnamed U.S. city, who accuse Jones of an undisclosed misdeed, subject him to a "trial" in a cotton warehouse and beat him mercilessly. He seeks help from the Legal Aid Society, friends...
Many scholars see government subsidies as a two-pronged threat to academic independence. Recalling the Lysenko case in the Soviet Union and the racial theories formulated by Nazi scientists, they fear that government contributions will become government control, and the results of research will be perverted to fit convenient political and ideological purposes. But even if the government never goes so far as to bend the truth, the scholars worry that the taint of political involvement may discredit research carried out with even the most legitimate motivation...
...Congress of Racial Equality chose as its convention theme "The Black Ghetto: An Awakening Giant." CORE was convinced that the black masses -- the lower-classes of the Negro community -- had been relatively unaffected by the civil rights movement. They had no power -- no control over their private and public lives -- and CORE believed they should have a program...
...question that was asked by the civil rights movement. It was expressed rhetorically; there was a hope that if people realized the basic contradictions in racial oppression, their consciences would be aroused, and something would be done...