Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Blacks have by no means been totally accepted in the upper echelons of big business. Almost all top corporation officers are white, and, for that matter, most are white Anglo-Saxon. "It is more profitable for a young black man to think he can rise to be President of the U.S. than it is for him to think he can become president of a FORTUNE 500 company," says Richard Clarke, the employment recruiter. Many black executives are referred to by other Negroes as H.N.l.C.s (Head Nigger in Charge); they are assigned to public relations jobs or marketing to black customers...
...lifestyle, attitude and aspiration, the black middle class is almost as diverse as any other ethnic group of comparable income. Some of this diversity is shown in the following two portraits, one of a longestablished, upper-middle-income black family in the Deep South, another of a newly arrived middle-income couple in the North...
Lawyer, businessman and politician, Davis, 38, personifies the growing self-confidence and influence of Birmingham's black upper middle class. He is a member of both the state and county Democratic executive committees. His law practice is expanding so quickly that last year he took on a junior partner and now he plans to add another. Important segments of the city's black leadership are urging him to run for mayor...
...remember the last year for the death of a great man, Salvador Allende Gossens. Allende was not the only person who died when Chile's upper classes decided that democracy couldn't extend to working people. But because Allende devoted his life to the oppressed, because he tried to see that the undernourished children of the slums of Santiago would have milk to drink, he stands for all the Chilean junta's victims. For more than three years, Chile held out a beacon of hope to the rest of the world. It seemed to prove that people could take power...
Constable conjectured that a possible trade the Strauch committee might recommend would have Harvard assume Radcliffe financial aid costs in exchange for Radcliffe making its three Houses more uniform with the rest of the system by separating freshmen from the upper classes...