Word: white
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Black and white men do not now trust each other. Women mostly do. Most of us have the same occupation-housewife-the same problems and the same domestic drives. What a pity the men can't concentrate on their common problems and drives and put the battle back where it belongs-between the sexes...
Many private citizens agree. In a follow-up study for the President's riot commission, a new survey estimates that one-third of the white community looks to tougher police to solve riots, one-third favors eradication of slum problems, and one-third wavers from side to side, supporting repressive measures on the one hand and poverty programs on the other. Right now, the balancing third may very well be moving toward the get-tough sector. "The American people," said Texas Governor John Connally, "are tired of dissension and turmoil and crisis. Wallace is gaining strength because he appeals...
...Beginning. Even as the plotted attack on police in Cleveland was increasing white apprehension about law and order all over the country, it seemed to be inspiring black militants to a higher level of bombast. Said Eldridge Cleaver, a leader of Oakland's Black Panthers and author of Soul on Ice, a compendium of bitter autobiographical essays: "It shows that psychologically blacks are not only prepared to die but to kill." Added Stokely Carmichael: "We are only at the beginning of a revolution-the armed stage. We must create the maximum damage with a minimum loss of black people...
Tenuous order came with dawn, and Stokes, on the advice of black leaders, devised a bold gamble to pacify the troubled area the next night. All white law-enforcement officers, including the National Guardsmen, were withdrawn, and some 100 Negro policemen-nearly all Cleveland has-and 500 Negro civilians, mostly militants, were sent in. Stokes' bet paid off. Rioting stopped and no one was injured, though looting continued. Two nights after the flare-up, Stokes returned the Guard and an integrated police force. The Cleveland Insurance Board estimated damage from both fire and looting at a relatively...
...marathon ahead. As odds-on favorite for the Republican presidental nomination, he had to give serious consideration to the choice of a running mate. He also set out to polish position papers for the G.O.P. Platform Committee, and write an acceptance speech. For his retreat, he borrowed a white bungalow at California's Newport Beach that resounded all week to pounding waves from the West...