Word: racially
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Moreover, Sessum's automatic sentence of life imprisonment was the sternest punishment Mississippi has yet handed out in a racial murder case...
...LYNDON B. JOHNSON, the President, the greatest vote-getter in U.S. history, now in serious trouble because of an arduous war abroad, a racial crisis of alarming proportions at home, and a gyrating economy that seems to be getting out of hand...
...home, the general assembly demolished a passel of passé prohibitions: Virginia's ancient predilection for pay-as-you-go budgetary procedures; the inviolability of the state constitution; a ban on sales of liquor by the drink; an end to billing poll-tax payments; an end to racial segregation in jails and prisons. Has the Old Dominion gone liberal? Decidedly not, insists the chief architect of change, Byrd-Democrat Mills Godwin, 53, Governor since 1966. "It's realism...
Card Carrier. As the Depression deepened, so did Wright's belief that radical politics held the only promise for social and racial justice. In 1932, he joined the Chicago John Reed Club and, says Miss Webb, "committed himself wholeheartedly-morally, intellectually and artistically-in the fullest gesture of his life." Miss Webb is hesitant to say outright that Wright was cynically used by the American Communist Party to rally Negro support. Yet she makes it quite clear that, although Wright carried a party card, he was too preoccupied with his problems as an artist and his own writing career...
WHILE Negroes were rioting in Newark last summer, much subtler racial tensions were disturbing the campus of Shaw University, a private Negro college in North Carolina...