Word: white
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...necessary to degrade the otherwise moving ceremonies? I think there are many South African Negroes who could tell these men things that would make them appreciate their freedom-yes, freedom! I think that Smith and Carlos are only hurting the cause they hold closest to their hearts by alienating white Americans and giving people like George Wallace a chance to say, "See what I mean...
...roundabout way, Richard Nixon leveled such an accusation at the President last week. "In the last 36 hours," he proclaimed, "I have been advised of a flurry of meetings in the White House and elsewhere on Viet Nam. I am told that top officials in the Administration have been driving very hard for an agreement on a bombing halt, accompanied possibly by a ceasefire, in the immediate future." Then the thrust: "I am also told that this spurt of activity is a cynical, last-minute attempt by President Johnson to salvage the candidacy of Mr. Humphrey. This...
...through the campaign, antagonists from both ends of the political spectrum insisted that there were really no fundamental differences between the two. But there are. Despite their kindred pasts (small towns, occasional hard times) and similar attitudes about party loyalty (intense and constant), the contrasts go deep. In the White House, they would become highly visible...
...rousing themselves for Humphrey, Northern Negroes are holding back. "I've never heard so much cynicism about an election," says Nathan Wright, a leading organizer and observer of black militants. "Some are, perhaps, even cynical enough to vote for Wallace, on the theory that if this is what white America wants, let's help the issue come to the top." That may be an extreme possibility, but, as always, it is hard to say who speaks for U.S. Negroes. Moderates tend to agree with Whitney Young: "White liberals can indulge the privilege of not voting, but blacks...
...assumptions of trust and interdependence without which no organism so vast and disparate can possibly function. In what most responsible citizens concede to be one of the ugliest situations in memory, strikes and the threat of strikes pitted not only union against employer-the city-but, worse, black against white, Jew against Gentile, middle class against poor...