Word: voluntaryism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Truman heard Johnson repeat his own appeal for peace in Asia and his determination to fight against aggression there, much as Truman had done in the Korean War. Then the mood changed. Because he "wanted the entire world to know that we haven't for gotten who is the...
Since the law went into effect in July 1964, the Justice Department has filed 19 suits covering 75 separate establishments, including several so-called private clubs. Thirty-nine of these have eventually desegregated. Overall, 1,645 complaints of discrimination in places of public accommodation have been filed with the department...
As a result, discrimination in hotels and restaurants is the exception in most large Southern cities and the accepted pattern elsewhere in the South. Negro travelers are still likely to find gas stations with three rest rooms-one for white men, one for white women and a third for Negroes...
After the Deed. Lyndon Johnson, on the other hand, has apparently come to consider the guidelines as gospel. Even though he always goes out of his way to note that observance of the guidelines is voluntary, he also always acts as though anyone breaking through the guidelines is somehow defying...
Having done nothing to help end the New York City transit strike, President Johnson was on doubtful ground when he denounced the settlement as a violation of the Government's supposedly voluntary wage-price guidelines. Even more questionable was Labor Secretary Willard Wirtz's after-the-settlement attempt...