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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ironically, the blacks who, in their very bitterness, testify to this. The young white protesters, criticizing materialism, are part of a revolution of rising spiritual expectations. But the blacks are still concerned with the old material expectations. They are not insensitive to esthetics. Despite extremist behavior, for many of them right now the "quality of life" is something far simpler than it is to the white students: a better life, a better job-largely the products of material progress. Along with the Viet Nam War it was, after all, a demand for a betterment of the Negroes' condition that...
...situation today is so full of contradictions as that which concerns the Negro. In terms of statistics and cold facts, the gains of the eight Democratic years have been spectacular. Negro median family income is up 53%; the unemployment rate is down 34%. The gap between black income and white income has narrowed substantially. Slightly more than a quarter (27%) of all Negroes are below the poverty line, compared with 55% in 1960. A far greater percentage of Negroes are finishing high school and going to college. Today, a Negro college graduate often has a better chance of landing...
...classes of Toms. Yet black-white relations are not improving. In comparison with today, 1960 looks like the era of good feeling. Since 1964, each year has seen black riots in the ghettos-although there is a feeling, if nothing more, that the worst phase of the riots is over; 1968, for instance, was quieter than 1967. Since the time when blacks and whites marched together on Washington in 1963, the dream of integration has seemed increasingly less relevant. Black students on many campuses now want their own segregated dormitories; the rhetoric of black militants has grown increasingly virulent...
...anger is not difficult to explain. The dream of equality has been deferred too long, and Americans, both white and black, are paying in the late '60s for the omissions of the past. For there is another side to the glowing figures of black advancement. Negroes are still three times as likely as whites to die in childbirth and infancy; they are three times as likely to be in poverty; they are twice as Likely to be unemployed. While they are gaining more in terms of income than whites, they are not likely to catch up at the present...
...Negro's status very succinctly: "The black people are no longer interested in a lot of conferences and meetings, or surveys and graphs and study commissions. We've been analyzed and graphed and surveyed for too long. We need action now. We want to give white America the chance to show that there is such a thing as equality of opportunity, regardless of race, creed, or color...