Word: racial
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...only with herculean effort. Part of a $2.8 billion supplemental appropriations bill for this fiscal year, the rent scheme met determined resistance from Republicans, who argued that it would inevitably require far more than the initial seed money, and from Southern Democrats, who feared it would lead to further racial integration...
Life for a Life. The 1966 bill, going even beyond its predecessors, would make the murder of a civil rights worker, or the slaying, for racial reasons, of anyone else exercising certain fundamental rights, such as voting or seeking to attend school, a federal crime with a maximum penalty of life imprisonment. At present, the most that a defendant in such cases can get in a federal court is ten years...
This year's proposed law would also authorize the U.S. Attorney General to take independent legal action to force desegregation of schools and other public facilities without waiting, as he must now, to receive a formal complaint. The measure would also institute procedures for eliminating racial discrimination in federal juries, and would empower federal and state courts to halt trials in state courts where there is evidence of juror discrimination...
...Profound Hypocrisy." Johnson's boldest proposal was an eloquent plea for "a national policy against racial discrimination in the sale or rental of housing." Said he: "Negro ghettos indict our cities North and South. As long as the color of a man's skin determines his choice of housing, no investment in the physical rebuilding of our cities will free the men and women living there." Noting that "Negro Americans comprise 22% of the enlisted men in our Army combat units in Viet Nam-and 22% of those who have lost their lives in battle there," the President...
...Boston School Committee announced two weeks ago that it would try to settle the dispute with the state by offering a three point plan--including the building of new schools, redistricting and limited racial busing. A source close to the Committee said yesterday that the building plan has already been completed