Word: racial
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...June, it will have employed 603,000 boys and girls at a cost of $391 million. It has worked so well that some House Democrats would like to give it more than $550 million for the year beginning July 1. Much of the money would be spent to ease racial unrest in the 21 "high-tension" U.S. cities...
...historic civil rights bills of 1964 and 1965 would never have become law if Senate Republican Leader Everett Dirksen had not marshaled the G.O.P. votes that quashed Southern resistance. Nor does the most controversial proposal in President Johnson's 1966 civil rights bill, a clause banning racial discrimination in the sale, rental or financing of all housing, have any chance of approval without Republican backing. That support may not be forthcoming for the provision, at least in its present form. Last week Dirksen pronounced the housing section "absolutely unconstitutional," on grounds that it would invade the rights of private...
...other School Committee members Louise Day licks and Joseph called the plan a complete failed Both argue that redistributing can not eliminate racial imbalances in Boston schools because Negro school population increases yearly and is concentrated in small areas of the city...
Eisenstadt saved his most vigorous criticism for those "panderers of fear" who revealed details of the Joint Center's redistricting proposal to the public. The plan, which the Joint Center prepared for the Massachusetts Department of Education Task Force on Racial imbalance, has not yet been submitted to the Boston School Committee and is still being revised by the Task Force with the help of the Joint Center. But parts of it leaked out Wednesday...
...plan is "extreme" in Eisenstadt's opinion because it is designed for "maximum" compliance with the Massachusetts racial imbalance law. He indicated that the committee could satisfy the Massachusetts Department of Education with an imbalance plan with smaller redistricting changes than the Joint Center draft suggests...