Word: racial
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...section of Lyndon Johnson's 1966 Civil Rights Bill has raised more of a ruckus than Title IV, the wide-ranging ban on racial discrimination in the sale or rental of housing. One reason is that civil rights bills have never previously hit Northerners so close to home. From the moment it was drafted, a powerful coalition of builders, real estate men and politicians of all persuasions objected to the housing measure, and Southern civil rights foes viewed their discomfiture with undisguised glee. "For the first time," chortled North Carolina's Democratic Senator Sam Ervin, "we have...
...voice when he told the graduating class of Washington's predominantly Negro Howard University to resist "the seductive blandishments of the white liberals" and seek "audacious power-black power." Members of two of the major civil rights groups, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and the Congress of Racial Equality, mouth it over and over. "Integration is irrelevant," cries SNCC Chairman Stokely Carmichael, 24. "Political and economic power is what the black people have to have...
Indeed, as applied by the young demagogues of SNCC and CORE, the notion of black power is inching dangerously toward a philosophy of black separatism and perhaps ultimately of black Jacobinism, almost indistinguishable from the wild-eyed doctrines of the Black Muslims and heavy with intimations of racial hatred...
...Sour." On the face of it, "black power," a slogan probably used first by Negro Novelist Richard Wright (Native Son) after a 1953 visit to Kwame Nkrumah's Ghana, seems nothing more than an appeal to the long-submerged racial pride of Negroes. "It doesn't necessarily have anything to do with black supremacy or hating whites," says John McDermott, head of Chicago's Catholic Interracial Council, "but it can go sour in that...
...Even when bullets and arrows fly thickest, many just mill around in the background on horseback, as though someone had told them not to do anything-other than occasionally torturing white men-that might discredit their people. If anything, Diablo proves that it can be extremely difficult to promote racial harmony while playing cowboys-and-Indians...