Word: tactical
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...long run, polarization may prove more destructive to race relations than the current incidence of friction in integrated schools. Blacks are emerging from white schools and colleges in increasing numbers, are often eagerly sought for good jobs, and want those advantages now. The selfhelp, go-it-alone tactic is a far slower and more difficult process...
...atmosphere was still tense the next day, when William Kunstler, chief defense attorney at the Chicago trial, addressed the students at Campus Stadium.* Though Kunstler chided the students for acts of vandalism ("I had never thought breaking windows is a good tactic"), his manner and some of his statements were irresponsible and inflammatory. "The real violence occurs in the back rooms of police stations," he said. "The shadow of the swastika is on every courthouse, on universities, on Government buildings...
...example of Southern Massachusetts University's school-in-exile was cited as a possible tactic to oppose the suppressive actions of school officials. Judith Adler, an instructor fired by S. M. U. who is head of the school-in-exile, also spoke at the session...
...meeting is a delaying tactic to avoid taking action on any of the issues involved." he added...
This diversionary tactic comes at a time when the courts have run out of patience with Southern resistance and are setting deadlines for prompt desegregation. Enlightened leaders in the Carolinas have adjusted realistically to the inevitable and have reasoned responsibly with segregationists in their states. But Governors in Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana and Florida are scoring easy and dangerous political points by stirring up all of the anti-integration forces. Georgia's Governor Lester Maddox even told schoolchildren not to get on buses that would take them to integrated schools and that "somebody ought...