Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Reverse Racism. Despite widespread concern with the problem, many civil rights leaders argue that the term "white backlash" is a misnomer. "It's white frontlash," insists Chicago Urban League Director Edwin Berry. "It's a prejudice that's always been there...
...scheduled for Columbus day and not October 14, was canceled by Dean Watson after he had consulted with the five police departments which would have been involved in the spectacular. "If we were out in the country, a mock battle with 300 participants might be possible, but in an urban area, it seemed too risky," Dean Watson said...
...racist won by some sort of fluke, or to say Sickles was whipped by white backlash is just too simple. Maryland is an odd state. It is half-Northern, half-Southern; half-urban, half-rural. The Eastern Shore seems like another world to the suburbanites of Montgomery and Prince Georges counties. The Shore and the southern counties below Washington are solid Dixie. Mahoney won all of these in the primary (except Miles' home county). But why was everyone so surprised? Wallace took 11 of the 12 in 1964. After the election too many people wouldn't look at a plain...
...Daniels, a Roxbury resident who attends Boston Latin and who took courses at the Urban School this summer, said that although most of the teachers were white, "it didn't bother me there; it's different from the Boston School System. It doesn't seem to matter whether your teacher is black or white. They're interested in teaching you something," Daniels said. It is also good to get out of Roxbury and see what other places are like, Daniels, who is applying to Harvard, added...
...Urban School...