Word: racial
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Operation Exodus' participation in the PBH project must be approved by the Roxbury School Board. Operation Exodus runs an after-school tutorial program similar to PBH's, and buses Negro students to neighboring schools in an effort to alleviate racial imbalance in Roxbury schools...
...white student body to ignore the winds of U.S. constitutional change, while steeping itself almost entirely in local law, customs and politics. Ole Miss law graduates emerged with their Deep South views untouched, after which they ran the state with an isolated narrow-mindedness that has mired Mississippi in racial tragedy...
...Course. The new mood at Ole Miss has created a new willingness to listen to outside opinions. Bobby Kennedy spoke there last March on racial discrimination, drew an ovation from 4,500 students. Law students also brought in as speakers Mississippi N.A.A.C.P. Leader Charles Evers and Atlanta A.C.L.U. Official Charles Mor gan Jr. Last year eight law professors from Yale and seven from Harvard spent two weeks each on the campus for what students dubbed "the jet-set course." Mississippians were fascinated. "Even though I might not go with them politically," says Student Jack McCormick, "I thoroughly enjoyed Archibald...
...author found 334 completed or attempted killings, mostly during youngsters' viewing time. The heroic figure in TV and movie drama is often the "victorious man of violence." Toy manufacturers fill the Christmas counters with toy guns and war games. Even Superman is unhealthy fare: "the embodiment of racial superiority, race pride, race prejudice." Explains Wertham: "No dark-skinned or dark-complexioned or not-so-tall-or-so-full-chested youngster, whoever he is or whatever he achieves,' can measure up to the white Superman.'' The adult, too, is everywhere assaulted by ideas that take violence...
...indictment of violence as the "cancer" in society, Wertham Believes that there is a cure. It is nothng less than a gradual change in nearly 11 of man's ways of looking at life, at war, at himself. Poverty and racial rejudice are obviously powerful incitements to violence, but so, he says, is the lassie American emphasis on getting head. The individualism and selfishness inherent in an acquisitive society beget a climate of violence, as does hypernationalism. A Sign for Cain will give readers a healthy dose of "the dignity of indignation," but it does not offer much hope...