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Word: racial (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Although black economic power is a prerequisite for racial integration--even if every black man was as well off materially as every white--America would still be sick" Jackson said. "The tragedy is that blacks have been perverted into merely the shadows of whites...

Author: By Jeffrey D. Blum, | Title: Jesse Jackson Transfixes Law Forum | 11/2/1968 | See Source »

...Yorkers' concern with the quality of life, with impersonal or unresponsive organizations, with law and order-all these are national issues. Historically, New York is a pattern setter. If it should prove ungovernable or explode in bitterness, no other city could feel secure in a time of increasing racial and ethnic polarization...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JOHN LINDSAY'S TEN PLAGUES | 11/1/1968 | See Source »

...Semitism among Negroes that came with the ghetto riots-when Jewish shops were selectively burned-many Jews felt outrage at both Rhody McCoy and Lindsay, who had championed decentralization. The city's atmosphere, said Lindsay in a citywide TV address, "has in the last week degenerated into intolerable racial and religious tension." William Booth, chairman of the city's Human Rights Commission, was even more specific: "Every day this strike goes on, things are getting worse. You can sense there is much more antiwhite feeling among blacks and much more anti-black feeling among whites...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JOHN LINDSAY'S TEN PLAGUES | 11/1/1968 | See Source »

...labored heroically to communicate with the blacks in the ghettos. The city has had no major racial upheaval since 1964. Yet many white New Yorkers feel neglected as a result. In huge areas of The Bronx, Brooklyn and Queens, thousands feel that Lindsay is interested only in the black and Spanish-speaking slums. Says Democratic Councilman Robert Low, a possible candidate for Mayor in 1969: "He has concentrated his attention on slum areas and raising standards for minority groups, without making the middle class feel he offers compensating programs for them." Partially as a result, the white exodus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JOHN LINDSAY'S TEN PLAGUES | 11/1/1968 | See Source »

...Streeter was not at all impressed by such precedents. Streeter was far more concerned about the fact that Scott's Negroid characteristics proved that Damaschke was not the boy's father -even though no one claimed that he was. More important, the judge made it clear that racial integration is not particularly popular in Port Huron, where the Damaschkes live. "I am a politician," said Streeter. "I get around the county, or I wouldn't have been elected three times, and I know of no white family in St. Clair county that has a colored child outside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Civil Rights: Color and Custody | 11/1/1968 | See Source »

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