Word: racial
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that the overriding cause was white resentment over Negro rioting in the cities. In Maryland, Perennial Also-Ran George Mahoney beat out seven rivals for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination by keying his campaign to prejudiced-or frightened -whites. In Louisiana, twelve-term Congressman James Morrison paid for his moderate racial record by losing the Democratic primary election to Segregationist John Rarick, who attacked Morrison as an ally of "the black-power voting bloc...
Then last week Negro slum dwellers went on the rampage in two U.S. cities that had been relatively free of racial violence for decades...
...tough desegregation guidelines it has sought to enforce in Southern hospitals and schools. Majority Leader Mike Mansfield, a longtime supporter of civil rights measures, seconded the criticism, said he thought that the department was going "too fast" and was violating the intent of Congress by trying to enforce racial balance rather than merely to end segregation...
...million), has to cope with explosive problems of growth unparalleled anywhere else in the world. Its annual gross income is greater than that of any full-fledged nation save Russia, West Germany, Britain, France and the U.S. itself. Yet the urgent demands of overloaded schools, insufficient highways, restive racial minorities and ever-rising taxes forever plague the state. Indeed, any headache that afflicts any other state throbs even harder in California-and many of its quandaries have not even been invented elsewhere...
Save for her piercing blue eyes, Lillian Smith hardly resembled a pioneering crusader for civil rights. Her manner was retiring, her voice soft and small. But her forceful message cut through the Georgia drawl: Jim Crow demeaned and diminished every Southerner, white or black. "Racial segregation has been a strong wall behind which weak egos have hidden for a long time," she wrote in 1951. She castigated Southern Governors who defied the U.S. Supreme Court's order to integrate the schools. As a result, she said, Southern whites "are losing their freedom to do right, to act as their...