Word: racial
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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John R. Rarick's victory over 12-term Congressman James H. Morrison in a Louisiana Democratic primary illustrated voter discontent with the President, whom Morrison had backed on most issues. The vote was heaviest against the incumbent in the two areas of the district where racial disturbances had occurred. Rarick also skillfully used rhetoric railing against "professional politicians," a ploy most effective when voters seem to be most frustrated...
...Sickles, 7066 for Mahoney. The Washington suburbs and the Dixie counties tended to balance each other out, as they have in previous elections. The primary was really decided in Baltimore, and it was decided more by Mahoney's own personal appeal and the other candidates mistakes than by any racial factor...
...United States Commission on Civil Rights yesterday opened two days of public hearings here on racial imbalance in Boston schools...
...hearings are part of a study of racial isolation that the commission is making in 50 American cities which have significant Negro populations. Among the first to address the commission was Senator Edward M. Kennedy...
Pastard, Karenga, the boys on 103rd -- all believe that the racial situation in America will never be solved through cooperation on the part of whites. The problem is no longer one of white intolerance but one of white power; the aim is no longer to get into a white neighborhood, but to weaken the grip of the white power structure. The angry men of Watts are out to claim their birthright, not to ask for it as though it were a gift. To the young nationalists, no white man, regardless of his ethics, can serve a useful function...