Word: revoltingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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James Baldwin, the novelist and essayist, will deliver a lecture on "The Cultural Implications of the Negro Revolt" in Sanders Theatre on Saturday, Jan. 18, it was announced yesterday...
...months following Birmingham, Negroes paraded, demonstrated, sat in, stormed and fought through civil rights sorties in 800 cities and towns in the land. The revolt's basic and startling new assumption-that the black man can read and understand the Constitution, and can demand his equal rights without fear-was not lost on Washington. President Kennedy, who had been in no great hurry to produce a civil rights bill, now moved swiftly. The Justice Department drew up a tight and tough bill, aimed particularly at voting rights, employment, and the end of segregation in public facilities...
...Different Image. The most striking aspect of the revolt, however, is the change in Negroes themselves. The Invisible Man has now become plainly visible-in bars, restaurants, boards of education, city commissions, civic committees, theaters and mixed social activities, as well as in jobs. Says Mississippi's N.A.A.C.P. President Aaron Henry: "There has been a re-evaluation of our slave philosophy that permitted us to be satisfied with the leftovers at the back door rather than demand a full serving at the family dinner table." With this has come a new pride in race. Explains Dr. John R. Larkins...
...will be remembered as the year the President of the U.S. was assassinated. But 1963 will also be remembered as the year of the Negroes' revolt. A profound change in attitude toward racial matters can be felt all over the land. The man who triggered this change: Dr. Martin Luther King...
...must honestly say to Atlanta that time is running out. If some concrete changes for good are not made soon, Negro leaders of Atlanta will find it impossible to convince the masses of Negroes of the good faith of the negotiations presently taking place. We must revolt peacefully, openly and cheerfully, because our aim is to persuade. We will try to persuade with our words, but if our words fail, we must persuade with our acts...