Word: racial
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Bullhorns & Diapers. Abernathy would probably be happy to get so visible a location, since the main purpose of the campaign is to wrench the national conscience and prod Congress into granting greater aid to the 29,900,000 American poor. "We will stay until Congress deals with racial poverty," said Abernathy last week. It will be an expensive stay: merely to feed the demonstrators should cost upwards of $150,000 a day, and Abernathy's procurement list includes items as various as 300 bullhorns, 10,000 disposable diapers and 250,000 nails. Day-care centers for demonstrators' infants...
Last week that racial refrigeration nearly dissolved in smoke. Not far from Springfield Avenue, site of last sum mer's worst rioting, flames emptied a three-story tenement, then rapidly blew through the area. "Most of these houses are nothing more than reinforced card board," said one tenant. The worst fire in Newark's history razed 1½ blocks and left more than 500 residents with out shelter...
Like the gunpowder concealed in the cellar of Parliament by Guy Fawkes, an explosive issue has long lain hidden beneath the even fabric of British life. Last week it exploded into the open-and presented Britain with an ugly, gnawing and virulent problem. The problem was racial prejudice, and the man who sparked the explosion, as it turned out, was only saying what a great many Britons think: that non-whites are not welcome in 98%-white Britain. Before the week was out, race had become the most heated and con troversial subject of the year-and an issue that...
Erasing the Vestiges. The United Methodist Church inherits by necessity the problems of the Methodist Church, most significantly its racially segregated organization.* White-run Methodist churches in the South have been al lowed by their denomination to bar Negroes from membership; as a result, Southern communities often have separate white and Negro Methodist congregations. The new denomination eliminates the Central Jurisdiction, a euphemism for a segregated administrative arm that has overseen most Negro Methodist churches. But it still retains ten all-Negro Methodist conferences in the South as separately administered units. The planners of the new church body have...
This amusing western has a racial equality angle, an avalanche, a locoweed stampede, Shelley Winters chomping cigars, and Agnes-an educated horse that sits on its rear end for a strategy conference with Burt Lancaster. Most important, it has Ossie Davis, one of the nation's finest Negro actors...