Word: racial
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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According to the Outline, we were going to "improve inter-racial and inter-regional understanding". . . "to allay parochialism by creating a new and very personal channel of communcation". . . , and a number of other well-directed statements about the social impact of out program. The rhetoric was polite and positive...
...ideas in this book set Moynihan off from the "mainstream" of American liberal thought on racial matters. The first idea is that the situation of American blacks is largely similar to that of other ethnic groups which have assimilated successfully into the majority culture. One senses in this book a tone of moral disapproval towards blacks who haven't acquired the civility of the rising Irish: if the poor of today could only become as self-respecting and self-reliant as the Irish were in their day, the "racial" problem would solve itself...
...RACIAL solidarity--"our ability to market ethnically"--is an important selling point for Williams and a clue to the success of his black business. "It would be very difficult for us at this time to have a white store manager, while we are still establishing our credibility within the community," Williams explained...
...when Martin Luther King Jr. was only 13 years old, Farmer took part in a sit-in at a Chicago restaurant. A year earlier, he had founded the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), which immediately began an assault on racial barriers in the South. In 1955, he took part in King's famed boycott against the Montgomery bus company, which forced the company to desegregate...
...Berkeley, members of the Third World Liberation Front, which is composed of blacks, Mexican Americans, Chinese Americans and other racial minorities, extended their strike for an autonomous college of ethnic studies into a third week. Though the university has not been seriously disrupted by the strikers so far, the daily campus demonstrations mounted to new violence last week as police battled students near Sather Gate. Thirty-five people were arrested on charges of obstructing a public thoroughfare, bringing the total number of arrests made during the strike to 75. With T.W.L.F. leaders committed to accepting no compromise, no immediate...