Word: racial
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...EXPERIMENT IN TELEVISION (NBC, 3-4 p.m.). "The New Voices of Watts" examines the hopeful talents taking shape at the Writers Workshop in the Los Angeles slum area that was the scene of bitter racial rioting two years...
...bill, most importantly, would lower the racial barrier for Negroes wishing to buy or rent any of some 80% of the nation's housing units. Dis crimination would be forbidden in about 52.6 million dwellings, including millions of single-family houses...
...commission's contention that racial disorders result from "white rac ism" was widely disputed. California Governor Ronald Reagan charged that the commission "failed to recognize the efforts that have been made by millions of right-thinking people in this country." Richard Nixon and others zeroed in on the commission's failure to place heavy blame on the rioters themselves. "I think," said Nixon, "the commission has put undue emphasis on the idea that we are in effect a racist society." Vice President Hubert Humphrey also had some doubts about the commission's conclusion that...
...tendency to lay the blame for the riots on everyone except the rioters." Disputing the commission's attempt to debunk the notion that riots are planned by extremists, Nixon in a radio-network speech alluded to conspiracies to ignite next summer. Only a combination of efforts can avert racial upheavals, Nixon said, and he attributed equal importance to bringing "the American dream to the ghetto" and preparing "to meet force with force if necessary." What attracted the most attention was his reiteration of the need to make it "abundantly clear that these preparations are made, and that retaliation against...
Down the years since W. C. Handy midwifed the blues, his city of Memphis has been a passable paradigm of racial harmony and a pathfinder of Negro progress. Memphis schools are integrated. Its black citizens have voted since the early 1900s. Its white and black lawyers have been in the fore front of civil rights campaigns. So amicable has its climate been that Memphis police have never faced a serious charge of brutality. Yet last week Memphis simmered on the rim of racial rampage-a premonition in microcosm of next summer's national threat...