Word: racial
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seven weeks racial tensions had mounted in Memphis, as the city's garbage strike escalated into a showdown between Mayor Henry Loeb and more than 200,000 Negroes seeking economic parity with whites. Last week black blues erupted into violence when militants got the opportunity they had been seeking. It was given to them by Dr. Martin Luther King...
...ensure that our economy will prosper and that our fiscal position will be sound." For the first time, he came out with a warm endorsement of the Kerner Commission report on last summer's riots. Having previously all but ignored the commission's exhaustive assessment of the racial crisis, the President somewhat defensively declared: "We thought the report was a very thorough one, very comprehensive, and made many good recommendations...
...grilling the picture was drawn dramatically: we saw the absurdity of cooperating with Shaw students to solve problems for which they held us indirectly responsible. We had no choice but to let the program become, if not entirely, at least partly a racial tug of war. As long as we were "cooperating" to help them, we were being paternalistic; only if we accepted the racial struggle could we come to terms...
...could we not participate in a racial contest? One of my tutees engaged me daily in a battle of wits. First she got me to acknowledge my guilt, as a white, for the American Negro's condition. When she had me where she wanted me, she accused me of showing pity for the Negro. She systematically blocked my efforts to assuage my guilt by refusing to let me be nice...
...were also hired, of course, to teach. But at the inception of the program, when the Harvard people were in Cambridge and the Shaw people were in Raleigh, the tutors were regarded only in their objective function. Only when we arrived on campus did we become racial threats. Only then came the nagging realization that there was something in it for us. Why had we wanted to come? Shaw people could conceive of only two reasons: either we were brought by neurotic missionary impulses or, worse, we came out of cold sociological curiosity...