Word: racially
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harvard community needed a shock to begin acting on racial problems, the black students provided it a week after King's death. Harvard held a service in Memorial Church on the second day back from Spring recess, but the black students did not attend--they conducted their own service on the steps of Mem Church...
...much-maligned James Michael Curley had this same ability to forge personal, emotional bonds with his aides and cohorts. Shy, anxious Bobby Kennedy had something else: his backers were certain that he alone could move to heal the racial, generational, and international crisis hobbling America. As one Boston female lawyer back from the funeral said Sunday. "He had more imagination, guts, and heart than the rest." According to his long-time adviser Adam Yarmolinsky, his constant refrain was "What can I do about...
...speak not only of war, poverty, and racial injustice, though these are the most painful issues, but also of the disaffection of our own generation and the polarization, the pig-headedness and refusal to confront the real problems on both sides of so many conflicts international and local...
Part of the normalcy which the country returns to is the prospect of a Humphrey-Nixon presidential race, a contest between experienced and conventional apostles of order--tepid progressives on racial problems, unimaginative hawks on the Vietnam...
There are two James Baldwins, equally passionate, at times equally gifted. One is the racial rhetorician, the polished pamphleteer, the literate prophet who warned about The Fire Next Time long before the words, "Burn, baby, burn" raged in the land. His preachments remain intensely articulate, painfully-and plainly-relevant...