Word: southernism
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Florida, voter apathy-together with a torrential rainstorm-may have cost another Johnson man, former (1955-61) Democratic Governor LeRoy Collins, 59, his expected senatorial nomination. While the downpour (2.27 in. in Miami) in the state's populous southern tip kept many of Collins' supporters home, good weather in the rest of the state did nothing to hinder his conservative opponent, Attorney General Earl Faircloth, 47. Collins missed a majority by a mere...
...Statistics at best can only delineate the bare perimeters of poverty. The sensations of being poor are scarcely comprehensible to the 170 million Americans who are not poor: the hollow-bellied, hand-to-mouth feeling of having no money for tomorrow; the smell of wood smoke that hangs over Southern shantytowns?romantic to the suburbanite, but symptomatic of scant heat and pinchgut rations to the poor; the bags of flour delivered by a well-meaning welfare agency, in a household that has no oven; the pervasive odor of human urine and rat droppings in perennially damp walk-ups; the bite...
...contrast, the route of the Southern procession echoed with memories of earlier clashes in the civil rights cause. Passing through Selma, Abernathy paused beside the silver span of the Edmund Pettus Bridge, scene on "Bloody Sunday" (March 7, 1965) of a club-flailing confrontation between King's marchers and Sheriff Clark's lawmen. During a speech recalling King, Abernathy suddenly fell silent and let the tears roll down his cheeks. Then a huge Negro woman began singing: "Jesus-got all the power...
...conscience of the white man has always been the Negro's potential ally. Even before the Abolitionists' underground railroad spirited runaway Southern slaves to comparative sanctuary in the North, there were white Americans willing to denounce, and even to oppose, a system that infringed the cardinal tenet of democracy. But white conscience has been too passive, too diffuse, too reticent a force, in part because the power of the individual conscience is difficult to pool, and in part because the cause of equal rights is such a massive undertaking. Now there is widespread evidence that the white American...
Duke University students in Durham, N.C., recently demonstrated on behalf of the university's maintenance employees, most of them Negro, who struck for the right to bargain collectively. "To see these middleclass, Southern white kids treating semiliterate Negro maids and janitors with dignity and respect, without any condescension, is heartening," says Faculty Member Samuel Cook. "They're not only breaking the color barrier, but the class and educational barriers." In San Francisco, 150 Bay area physicians and health workers have organized as the Medical Committee for Human Rights to mediate between the Black Panthers, one of the more...