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Word: racially (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fired that killed Martin Luther King. His martyrdom, as the President suggested, must not be a cause for mourning alone, but above all for action to expiate his death. Thus, in the months remaining to him as President, Lyndon Johnson faces the challenge and opportunity to resolve the racial crisis that has bedeviled his Administration and at the same time to heal the agony of Viet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher: Apr. 12, 1968 | 4/12/1968 | See Source »

...causation and execution, the murder of Martin Luther King was both a symbol and a symptom of the nation's racial malaise. The proximate cause of his death was, ironically, a minor labor dispute in a Southern backwater: the two-month-old strike of 1,300 predominantly Negro garbage collectors in the decaying Mississippi river town of Memphis. The plight of the sanitation workers, caused by the refusal of Memphis' intransigent white Mayor Henry Loeb to meet their modest wage and compensation demands, first attracted and finally eradicated Dr. King, the conqueror of Montgomery, Birmingham and Selma...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: THE ASSASSINATION | 4/12/1968 | See Source »

Highest Priority. For all the sense of personal loss that pervaded the nation with his death, Martin Luther King's heritage of nonviolence seemed to have endured its architect's demise. Those who predicted that racial pacifism had passed with him were contradicted last week from Harlem to Watts, in Northern ghettos and Southern grit towns, where black leaders and youths in great numbers took to the tense streets and urged their brothers to "cool it for the Doc." Mississippi's Charles Evers curbed a Jackson rising with Kingly oratory. Even such hardcore militants as Harlem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: THE ASSASSINATION | 4/12/1968 | See Source »

...white unconcern, he spoke so powerfully of and from the wretchedness of the Negro's condition that he became the moral guidon of civil rights not only to Americans but also to the world beyond. If not the actual catalyst, he was the legitimizer of progress toward racial equality. His role and reputation may have been thrust upon him, but King was amply prepared for the thrust...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Transcendent Symbol | 4/12/1968 | See Source »

Congress passed a civil rights bill yesterday calling for a massive attack on racial discrimination in housing. The House, after a month of debate, finally approved the bill by a vote...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Right Bill Passes | 4/11/1968 | See Source »

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