Word: racial
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...already sworn to bar re-election for any of the judges who voted against Ethiopia and Liberia. Violence is hinted at everywhere. Those who used to urge economic sanctions and legal proceedings have been silenced and feel as if they have betrayed the cause of racial justice in South Africa by delaying the inevitable conflict. There is a feeling among Western liberals that they have been defeated by their own democratic institutions; that international organs have not stood up under the stress of a potential international crisis...
...Education Commissioner Harold Howe, who has spoken out sharply against de facto segregation in recent months, the survey represents the factual basis for an all-out Government attack on the racial imbalance of the nation's schools. Within the next few weeks, the Department of Health, Education and Welfare plans to organize a special section to investigate de facto segregation in Northern states. Legislation now before Congress would withdraw federal aid for a year from school districts failing to desegregate, and would provide $50 million in technical assistance to those that are actively correcting racial imbalance...
First, Adams discovered the emptiness of one of the promises that had lured him to China: racial equality. On two occasions, he got into scuffles over racial slurs. He also began to be stifled by the indoctrination and the joylessness of Red Chinese life. "The Chinese have no sense of humor," says Adams. "When you go to the movies there, you don't go to be entertained; you go to study." Starved for recreation, he began visiting Peking's African embassies "to hear music, to dance and to talk freely." The Chinese did not like it, urged...
...Rest from Polemics. Eighteen months ago Adams taped two broadcasts urging Negro U.S. soldiers in Viet Nam to put down their arms and return home to fight for racial equality, but he insists that "I never considered myself a Communist." Now, he wisely has little to say about the war except that "we have to find some way to solve it." After visiting his mother in Memphis, he hopes to get a job teaching Mandarin, lead "a quiet life" with his family. As for civil rights or antiwar demonstrations, he says that he wants no part of them. After more...
...bombarding us with texts. This is not evangelism." Summing up for the Anglican Church Times, the Rev. Cecil Northcott charged that "the Graham crusade is a redundant anachronism in a world which demands that its Christianity shall be seen in community life, in social justice, and racial honesty. To be 'saved' at Earl's Court is not the answer to the plight of mankind, nor is it the answer for your own personal salvation...