Word: racially
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...President, of course, had a point: no nation has ever enjoyed such fantastic wealth, and that wealth is increasing steadily. But the U.S. is also in the midst of a debilitating war, a racial upheaval of immeasurable proportions, and a crisis of seemingly irreversible decay in its cities. In such circumstances, when the President grandly declares that the country never had it so good, he is adding a few more voters to the great consensus that he is creating-against himself...
...representatives, where he has sponsored bills for state laws controlling riots and the sale of firearms. He has refused to support establishment of a civilian review board for the police, but he vowed, if elected, to fire Police Chief Richard Wagner for being insensitive to the city's racial problems. He hit at the Locher administration's weaknesses: lagging urban renewal, lethargic leadership, and festering discontent in the slums. His campaign was a shrewd mixture of tolerance and toughness...
Republican Rubel Phillips, 42, who ran unsuccessfully in 1 963 as a segregationist, opened his gubernatorial campaign by pleading for a truce in Mississippi's racial war. "Trying to keep something from happening has absorbed so much of our total energies for all these years that we haven't had much left to devote to the really important task of developing our state," declared Phillips. "It is painfully clear that the race issue has retarded the development of our human resources. The white cannot keep the Negro down without paying the awesome penalty of restricting his own development...
Howard defined 'black courses' as "courses relevant to a black person in terms of his history and culture, both here and abroad ... of the type which will provide better analysis and understanding of the racial crisis in this country...
...racial issue that first brought Mrs. Hicks to prominence. Since being elected to the school committee six years ago, she has vigorously fought all attempts to break down Boston's de facto school segregation. She opposes the bussing of pupils out of their neighborhoods on the ground that bussing destroys "freedom of choice," and has opposed the open-enrollment system that permits Negro parents to register their children in predominantly white schools. Though a 1965 state law to promote racial balance now makes some student bussing unavoidable in Boston, Mrs. Hicks promises to fight the measure, condemns its goal...