Word: racially
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...domestic wars have simmered down as well. For three years, the Christmas holidays at South Boston High School had merely meant a lull in the racial conflict over busing. This year school officials have unplugged the airport metal detectors once used to screen students for weapons, the police have been removed from the halls, and Southie students are at peace. Said one kid: "After a while, you get to know them. You just get along." In Chicago, one of the nation's most stubbornly segregated cities, a new busing program drew angry words this fall but no violent resistance...
Atlantans rightly pride themselves on their good race relations. Blacks and whites worked together to head off serious racial strife in the 1960s. They avoided further confrontations in the 1970s by compromising on a token voluntary school busing program. For four years Atlanta has had a black mayor, Maynard Jackson. Last week the city passed another milepost, for itself and the South, when Jesse Hill Jr., 51, a black insurance executive, became president of the Atlanta Chamber of Commerce, in effect becoming the titular head of the city's mostly white business establishment...
About the least impressed person in town was Hill. Said he: "It's an honor, but it's not the first time I've had a leadership position that crossed racial lines." He is president of the Atlanta Life Insurance Co., founded by an ex-slave in 1905, and a director of Delta Airlines. In 1974 he became the first black member of the state university system's board of regents. As Chamber president, Hill expects to be little different from his predecessors. "Everything has changed," he says, "but everything is the same. Our main...
...Rights Amendment forces. The Los Angeles chapter of the National Organization for Women has asked ERA supporters to bring aluminum cans to a Coors recycling center and demand that the company pay for them with checks made out to the local pro-ERA campaign. Chicano boycotters accuse Coors of racial discrimination in hiring, a charge that the company denies...
...German fathers dominating the family it is possible that some thing of this got tied in with the kids' feelings that the fathers had lost their legitimacy." In addition, according to the Rothman-Lichter theory, America represented authority and goodness to the post war generation; but then, with racial troubles and the war in Viet Nam, the U.S., too, lost its legitimacy for Germans...