Word: racial
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After a bitter twelve-day floor fight, the House last week produced a fair-housing bill that gave the Johnson Administration several slices less than half a loaf. The President wanted a law that would forbid racial discrimination in the sale or rental of all housing in the U.S. The House balked at such a sweeping measure. It voted to exempt individual owners who make no more than two sales a year and landlords who rent buildings with no more than four units and live on the premises. The bill thus covers 23 million of the nation...
President Johnson described the truncated housing bill that came out of the House last week as "an important new milestone" toward racial justice. In a sense, that is so. Even though the measure is far less stringent than many state laws, a federal law naturally has far more impact. Nevertheless, the bill is at best a modest milestone, a halting start toward ending what Housing and Urban Development Secretary Robert C. Weaver rightly calls the "most stubborn and universal of the Negro's disadvantages...
Fiedler hurts from the raw places in contemporary life where the minority -Negro, Jew, social dissident or sexual deviate-is abraded by community judgment. In his latest book, which consists of three comic novellas, he laughs as he plays confident conjuring tricks with cards of racial identity...
Carlton W. Tillinghaft, assistant director for administration at the Smithsonian Observatory, said that advice on racial issues came from the State Department. "If they asked us to pull out, we would, but they have not instructed us to put pressure on South African apartheid," Tillinghaft said...
Tillinghaft explained the transfer from the Harvard Observatory to the Smithsonian Observatory was based on pragmatic, not racial reasons. "Even though the Smithsonian interest in the Boyden Observatory is quite light right now, Harvard gave us the administrative and logistic problems because with some 40 observatories all over the world we have a network can handle these problems," he said...