Word: racial
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...CIVIL RIGHTS ADVOCATE. I think integration holds the key to the racial problem...
...EGALITARIAN. Today we live in a land of racial tension, bred of 200 years of misunderstanding, fear and injustice-bred of guilt that the American reality often has been so shockingly at odds with the ideal...
...school issues arouse more passions than bussing children to achieve racial integration. It is clearly not a satisfactory long-range solution, especially in large cities where Negroes are heavily concentrated in large ghettos. But until urban housing patterns change, bussing is one practical way of getting a better racial balance in public schools, and it has worked out much better than expected in such cities as Evanston, Chicago and Seattle, where Negro children are transported to white neighborhood schools. This fall, the public schools of Berkeley, Calif., are proving that it is just as feasible to send buses along...
...passengers in a supersonic jet liner who are forced to watch helplessly while a passle of drunks, hypes, freaks, and madmen fight for the controls and the pilot's seat." The 1954 Supreme Court decision was "a major surgical operation performed by nine men in black robes on the racial Maginot Line which is imbedded as deep as sex or the lust for lucre in the schismatic American psyche. This piece of social surgery ... is more marvelous than a successful heart transplant would be, for it was meant to graft the nation's Mind back onto its Body and vice...
...white men became competent administrators and thinkers, but became alienated from their bodies and burdened with a sense of physical impotence. Such a split between mind and body arises in any class society, but can usually be overcome. In this country, however, the split has been made permanent by racial division. It is this overcoming of the racial division which holds the key to restoring the sanity so desperately needed by both white and black in America...