Word: racial
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...into the streets. So far this summer, nothing has happened on the order of the huge and destructive Harlem and Watts riots, but that is little cause for congratulations or complacency. Each week for most of the summer, the nation has been plagued by a dizzying number of simmering racial disturbances, any one of which might explode into massive proportions. Last week was one of particularly widespread unrest...
...Chicago, scene of heavy Negro rioting last month, racial violence came this time from whites. As 450 civil rights marchers demonstrated for open housing in a lily-white Southwest-Side neighborhood, they were taunted ("White power! White power!") by a mob of 750 whites, who burned twelve of the demonstrators' cars, overturned 22 and dumped two more into a lagoon. At week's end, as 500 marchers returned to the neighborhood for another try, a mob of 7,000 whites taunted them with curses, threw volleys of rocks, bottles and eggs. Injured: March Leader Martin Luther King...
Rendell, on the other hand, had attacked this view as "almost racial." ("What you are saying is,) 'These people (the peasants in Vietnam) don't matter--what matters is my New England conscience...
...stumbling block to many Northerners was the bill's Title 4, which was originally intended to outlaw racial discrimination in the sale and rental of all housing. To gain support from hesitant Congressmen, Administration strategists agreed to amendments in the Judiciary Committee that would exclude owner-occupied dwellings of four units or fewer-more than 60% of the nation's residential housing. Though still not enough of a concession for many of the bill's opponents, it was far too much for militant civil rights supporters...
...growing involvement of the churches in the secular world is the basic cause of this shift of theological sights to what is alternatively called the Holy Ghost, the Paraclete and the Comforter. Thoughtful churchmen, from Dietrich Bonhoeffer to clergymen involved in the current struggle for racial justice, profess to be aware of an outpouring of God's redeeming spirit outside the confines of the institutionalized churches. In this view, many groups and individuals not associated with the churches, some of them even openly atheistic, are nevertheless struggling for the coming of the kingdom of God on earth. Dutch Protestant...