Word: racial
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...After a long struggle, the Negro civil rights movement has finally won the sympathy and loyalty of the majority of white Americans [Sept. 16]. Now the civil rights leadership has done the one thing sure to alienate them: they have made a call for racial competition. Certain segments of the civil rights leadership seem no longer to be satisfied with equality; the slogan "Black power" reeks of racism. The white American has a long history of bigotry and ignorance in handling race relations. Does the Negro wish to equal him even in this...
...Leader Mansfield, for one, refused to make Dirksen the scapegoat. He reasoned that support for the bill had been eroded by the "rioting, marches, shootings and inflammatory statements which have characterized this simmering summer." He indicted, in particular, the evangelists of black power, "those who, in the name of racial equality or perhaps more accurately in the name of a new racial superiority, have not advocated further civil rights legislation but, in fact, have actively spoken and fought against...
Voices of Virulence. Those strong words echoed a feeling held by many, if not most, Americans. The black-power spokesmen-notably the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee's Stokely Carmichael and the Congress of Racial Equality's Floyd McKissick-have broken up the civil rights coalition whose strong, united stand did much to advance meaningful legislation in the past. The voices of virulence also helped fan the riots that erupted in the nation's cities this summer. Thus Congress, which had considered previous rights bills in the context of anti-Negro violence by Southern whites, this time worked...
Green Power. Addressing a steelworkers' convention in Atlantic City, A. Philip Randolph, pioneering civil rights leader and president of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, indicted black power as a philosophy "based upon the assumption of salvation through racial isolation." Moreover, he warned Negro leaders to "take great care against overheating the ghettos" lest they precipitate "a race war in this nation which could become catastrophic...
...Grenada, Miss., where Negro schoolchildren were savagely beaten this month for attending previously all-white schools, Dr. Martin Luther King drew applause with an appeal for white-black cooperation rather than racial rivalry. "Even we Negroes must learn," he said, "that whites and blacks in this country are tied together inseparably. Neither of us can make it alone." At one point, he gestured toward a collection plate, declared: "Green power-that's the kind of power we need...