Word: racial
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Your sensational article misuses our traditionally peaceful and happy country to justify the racial violence in your country...
...sloganeering militants who have taken over S.N.C.C. and the Congress of Racial Equality deride the older, moderate leaders of the N.A.A.C.P., the Urban League and Dr. Martin Luther King's Southern Christian Leadership Conference as "Uncle Toms" and "white niggers." S.N.C.C. has called the N.A.A.C.P. not only reactionary but "one of the main roadblocks to black freedom." Dr. King is denounced with increasing viciousness by the militants, who claim that he has entered into a secret pact with the "white Establishment...
...alliance of S.N.C.C. and CORE, denouncing King's Chicago housing accord as "treasonous" and a sellout, threatened last week to defy King's truce-and hopes for racial peace in Chicago-by marching into whites-only Cicero (TIME, Sept. 2) as King had planned to do before Chicago leaders met his demands. Some members voiced hopes for violence that would tarnish King's philosophy of nonviolence. In anticipation of "the tumult, riot or mob disorder" that might result from the march. Governor Otto Kerner at week's end activated some 2,000 National Guardsmen for duty...
...civil rights leaders split over philosophy and strategy, racial disturbances continued to break out in scattered spots throughout the U.S.-as they had nearly every other week this summer: ¶Roving bands of Negro youths roamed through the Negro section of Dayton-looting, stoning buses and breaking store windows-after a Negro man was fatally wounded by shotgun blasts fired from a passing car containing three white men. Some 1,000 National Guardsmen and several hundred city policemen and sheriff's deputies sealed off the west-side area, which contains about 15,000 of Dayton...
...city," promised to take affirmative steps to open all-white neighborhoods to Negroes. The Chicago Real Estate Board withdrew its opposition to the basic tenet of open-housing legislation. The housing authority promised to improve public housing and place families in the best available housing without regard to the racial character of the neighborhood. Mortgage bankers said that they would provide mortgage money without regard to race. In addition, the U.S. Department of Justice said that it would investigate possible discrimination in the issuance of federally insured loans...