Word: rican
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...York's Queens College, a 26,000-student unit of the City University of New York was shut down for two days by President Joseph P. McMurray "to avoid possible violence." Black and Puerto Rican students demanded the right to control the appointment of the director of the SEEK (Search for Education, Elevation and Knowledge) program that was set up in 1966 to help minority students...
...millionaire whose family cement company in 1963 became the first Puerto Rican corporation listed on the New York Stock Exchange, Ferré began campaigning nearly two years ago using slick, up-to-date U.S.-style methods never before tried in Puerto Rico. He spent $35,000 for a 250-page market research study and three polls of voter attitudes. What is more, he evidently benefited from growing support for Puerto Rican statehood. He has long favored statehood, which Muñ0z as adamantly opposes because it would mean higher U.S. taxes on Puerto Rico's still developing economy. Ferr...
...some grounds for agreement. "Roy and I," says Haddad, "are not such purists that we can't isolate a problem and discuss it. We can both agree, for instance, on the need for developing black institutions." They plan to start a journalism training program for Negro and Puerto Rican youngsters. And they both share an enthusiasm for an uphill enterprise: New York City is not notably hospitable to struggling young newspapers. The Tribune is getting some help, editorial as well as financial, from an advisory committee that includes Time Inc. Chairman Andrew Heiskell, New York Times Associate Managing Editor...
...Ocean Hill's heavily Negro and Puerto Rican Junior High School 271, the controversial teachers were harassed by the nonunion staff. One acting principal, herself a Negro, claimed that she was confronted and threatened in her office by outside militants and later intimidated by Ocean Hill Committee Chairman the Rev. C. Herbert Oliver-a charge Oliver dismissed as "a vicious lie, vomited from the jaws of hell...
...long been striving for, the first thing he often does is try to deny that level to those immediately below him on the scale. This tendency is evident today as many blue-collar union workers support George Wallace in a desperate attempt to deprive the Negro and Puerto Rican of the same benefits they now enjoy. These newly self-appointed guardians of the status quo would do well to remember from whence they came...