Word: upon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...difficult thing to support the blacks," Hoffman said, "when we had put in a lot of time and work and had a lot of ability that was never called upon. But it was a good thing for us as whites to follow the leadership of blacks in their fight...
Like any utopian vision, however, the Communist Party's has its flaws. A key point in its scheme is the insistence upon the re-emergence of labor unions. "It is time," the party platform states, "that workers demand that their leaders cease being water boys for the Democratic and Republican bosses. It is time that workers run for public office and begin to build a political party of their...
...reliance upon unions puts Mrs. Mitchell in an awkward position; for, undeniably, labor will supply a great majority of the Wallace vote in this election. The awkwardness can become schizophrenic. In New York, for example, Albert Shanker has led his powerful teachers' union in a six-week-old strike that is pitting the union directly against the black community of Ocean Hill-Brownsville in Brooklyn...
...draft system must be based upon fair and equitable rules of law applicable to all draft boards. Due process of law must be afforded each draft registrant...
...there is a curious commentary upon man's inhumanity to man whenever white Americans deliver that callous insult to the Negro's longstanding injury by questioning the validity of his chauvinistic or racist mode of retrieving his blackness. No doubt the black chauvinist mode of self-renewal is as mundane and vile as any other chauvinism at any period of human history. But it is no less an historically valid expression, for the history of white America's relationship to the Negro provided few meaningful alternatives...