Word: racial
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Opinion Analyst Samuel Lubell travels the country and concludes: "To most voters, crime and lawlessness and the Negro are part of the same issue. The vehemence and profanity with which white voters voice their racial views have risen over the last two months." A New York-based writer visits Baltimore and Washington, and finds that "crime-Negro crime-is almost the only topic of conversation." The Aldine Printing Co. in Los Angeles, the world's largest manufacturer of bumper stickers, reports that its bestseller is SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL POLICE, the old Birch slogan...
...communities that have experienced serious disorders and high crime incidence and where racial tension is a constant fact of life, there is a desperate urge to do something, almost anything. Firearms sales are at an alltime high. In Newark, a white organization, the North Ward Citizens Committee, has been openly arming for "self-defense." Elsewhere, store owners are organizing self-protection groups. In Kansas City, 25 merchants in a racially mixed neighborhood are threatening to close their shops en masse...
...Negro's exposure to black criminals makes him all the more indignant over the racial connotations of law-and-order rhetoric. William V. Patrick, head of New Detroit, a peace-keeping committee formed after the riot, protests: "It's a horrible phrase, a euphemism for racial repression. First you had slavery. Then you had Jim Crow laws. Then it was called 'separate but equal.' Now it is called 'law and order...
...rescue cats, and keep in touch with combustible young people. A police officer, one step higher, would control traffic, hold back crowds at parades, and investigate more serious crimes. A police agent, the best-trained, best-educated man on the ladder, would patrol high-crime areas, respond to delicate racial situations, and take care of tense confrontations...
...black schools, and quoting a Supreme Court ruling that invalidated Freedom of Choice when it didn't "speedily end the dual school system," the Justice Department asked for more radical measures. Specifically, it wanted the court to close many black schools and begin bussing and zoning plans to achieve racial balance in the schools. And it wanted all of this done before the 1968 school year opened...