Word: racial
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...John Spiegel, director of Brandeis University's Lemberg Center for the Study of Violence, approached black militancy from the opposite camp. Many municipal leaders, he reported, still deny that there is a racial problem in their respective cities. "If trouble comes, they blame it on punks, outsiders and Communists rather than on white racism and other injustices." Another group of city officials, said Dr. Spiegel, act as if they understand the problem, speak expansively about the steps they are taking, but in reality do little or nothing constructive. Spiegel calls this "the Jerry Cavanagh Phenomenon." Detroit, where Cavanagh...
...through news and public-affairs programming that TV has made its greatest impact on racial matters. The industry cliche of the month is "tell it like it is." The National Education Television network and individual stations in at least three U.S. cities have worked up programs using variants of that phrase for a title. One production is aimed at the Negro audience; the others explain the ghettos' problems to the white world. CBS is preparing a history and cultural series tracing the U.S. Negro back to the time of the slave traders. ABC last week announced a sixpart exploration...
...reaction of Congress to the campaign has been pretty much as expected. Congress does not like "blackmail," and that phrase is loaded with racial overtones...
Nixon was careful to divorce the crime problem from rioting and racial tension. He had dealt with that in an earlier position paper stressing the need for black economic progress (TIME, May 3). Last week his statement on racial accommodation drew praise from an unexpected source-the militant Congress of Racial Equality, which put forward its own plan for Negro selfhelp. Roy Innis, CORE associate national director, said Nixon's speech "opened the eyes of a lot of people" and made him a "contender for the black vote." Until now Nixon has not been particularly popular among Negro leaders...
...Negro want me to do?" It may stick in many white throats. To ask it is to demand an investment of conscience far beyond the mere missionary zeal to ease the black man's load. One example of this approach is the Committee for the Understanding of Racial Attitudes, formed by students at New York's Union Theological Seminary. CURA's declared purpose is to educate not blacks but whites. "We want to show," says Prudence Milite, "that what happened in the black ghetto is the result of racism embedded in the white community. People make...