Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...leaders-and white civil rights advocates-are appalled by the implications of the black-power mentality. Accusing S.N.C.C. of adopting a "black racist" course, N.A.A.C.P. Executive Director Roy Wilkins adds that it is ominously similar to South Africa's apartheid policy, only turned topsy-turvy. Black power, says Urban League Executive Director Whitney Young Jr., is indistinguishable from the bigotry of "Bilbo, Talmadge and Eastland." Besides, notes Howard University President James Nabrit Jr., currently on leave to serve as U.S. Permanent Deputy Representative to the U.N., "common sense should tell us that 20 million Negroes in a country...
Follow-up sessions for all students who did any volunteer service this summer and are interested in Education for Action begin at 7:30 p.m. tonight in Agassiz Theatre. Discussion groups will focus on projects in urban and rural areas, and abroad...
Daniel Patrick Moynihan, director of the Harvard-M.I.T. Joint Center for Urban Studies and one of the nation's leading experts on civil rights, said last night that Martin Luther King had far more support among Negro Americans than advocates of "Black Power," such as Stokely Carmichael, chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee...
...recognizing it cannot possibly match the great potential of the people." That awareness is the Westerner's proudest legacy. Reagan reminded his audience: "We built the West without an area-redevelopment agency. San Francisco, destroyed by fire, was rebuilt by Californians who didn't wait for urban renewal...
...process, a true nation 'is emerging out of what once was four major tribal confederations and two or three urban centers. As its leader, Feisal himself was his own best proof of the change last week. In his flowing white robes and gold headband, he flew off to Spain for five days of trade and foreign-investment talks with Francisco Franco. From Madrid he goes on to Washington this week, where he will meet with President Johnson to discuss economic development and other problems of the Middle East. In the old days of Saudi extravagance, there would have been...