Word: urbane
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...separate black state. But the term can also connote the emergence of Negroes as a cohesive political force, the building of black economic muscle, the recognition of an Afro-American cultural identity. To many black leaders, that is the only realistic meaning of the slogan. Last week the National Urban League, long attacked by militants as the button-down, archconservative wing of the civil rights movement, embraced Black Power-in its achievable definition...
...amid decent surroundings-even to exclude whites if they wish. But Young ruled out black apartheid. "We do not intend to do the racists' job for them by accepting segregation," he insisted, "and we plan no one-way trips to Africa." As a result, Young told 1,800 Urban Leaguers gathered in New Orleans for their 58th annual convention, he is launching a new thrust for what he termed Soul or Ghetto Power, increasing sevenfold the organization's spending in the slums, from $300,000 to $2,000,000 next year. "The Urban League," said Young, "intends...
Meanwhile, the principal challenge to overwhelmingly middle-class Urban Leaguers is to re-establish communications with the ghetto. Blacks from New Orleans slums listened blankly to lectures on their problems from league staffers at workshops organized during the convention. "We've got to realize that we're not middle class at all," confessed Lonnie King of the Health, Education and Welfare staff in Atlanta, "but black...
...seen again. Like Peter Sellers, he has ample physical credentials for a cab driver but rather odd ones for a star. His blunt, anonymous face was born to grouse behind a steering wheel. His voice - often hidden behind a Puerto Rican or Mittel-European accent - is a grainy urban product, like soot. His hair is rapidly disappearing; his walk is a series of slumps...
...others were more thoughtful in their analysis. As one business-suited, perspiring, baldheaded man said, "Nixon needed an urban expert on urban problems; Agnew ran Baltimore; he can handle the problems of the cities for my man, Nixon...