Word: racism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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They are far from sure that all the study in the world will illumine institutional racism, the Vietnam War, or the arms race sufficiently to show us how to stop them, and they are not at all certain that the time scale on which things are happening will allow the luxury of waiting to find...
...Black racism is strong, but so are provocations by white soldiers. Soon after Martin Luther King was killed, crosses were burned at Danang and Cam Ranh Bay. Confederate flags still fly from barracks and trucks, and are even worn as shoulder patches on the uniforms of helicopter pilots stationed at Phu Loi. Black soldiers at Con Thien grimace when whites call a Negro sergeant "brown boy" and a mongrel puppy "soul man." Base club operators who accept country and western but not soul music from their entertainers have paid a toll. Clubs were wrecked in Chu Lai, Qui Nhon...
...also remarkable in other ways. Each of the nation's 107 dioceses had been invited to send, in addition to the regular delegations, one youth, one woman, and one member of other minority groups as nonvoting participants. The guests soon radicalized the convention, making the issues of racism and Viet Nam its dominant themes...
Issue of Institutional Racism...
Increasingly, students are also taking up more local causes. Says Charles Palmer, 22, new president of the National Students Association: "Viet Nam will still be important, but I think more and more people will be raising the issue of institutional racism." At Duke, for example, Chancellor Pro-Tern Barnes Woodhall expects students to become involved in efforts to unionize the black nonprofessional employees...