Word: white
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...white race is the cancer of history."-Susan Sontag...
...significance may only be that new life has been breathed into the 13th Amendment and its accompanying Reconstruction laws, and that the court has enunciated once again the ultimate illegality of racial prejudice. That old law, insisted Justice Stewart, means that Negroes have "the freedom to buy whatever a white man can buy, to live wherever a white man can live. If Congress cannot say that being a free man means at least this much," then ending slavery implied "a promise that the nation cannot keep...
Justice Byron White, who cast the fifth and crucial vote against Powell, was obviously moved by much of the Fortas argument. A chronic alcoholic, said White in a concurring opinion, cannot properly be punished merely for being intoxicated. Then why jail Powell? Because, said White, he had not proved that it was his alcoholism that compelled him to be intoxicated in public. By that cautious hairsplitting, White seemed to suggest that the next defendant who dries out long enough to convince the court that he could not stop himself from getting drunk in a public instead of a private place...
...National Medical Association, who was a guest at the A.M.A. convention last week. But Swan points out that Negro doctors are still excluded from hospital-staff membership almost everywhere in the Deep South. In other regions, they are admitted only as token members. Negro specialists rarely receive referrals from white doctors. Black doctors who do manage to achieve staff status almost never move up into administrative positions. Those who practice privately must often arrange through white colleagues to have their patients admitted to a hospital. There, white doctors often take over-and collect...
...emotion, pulsing rhythm and spare, earthy lyrics?all suffused with the sensual, somewhat melancholy vibrations of the Negro idiom. Always the Negro idiom. LeRoi Jones, the militant Negro playwright, says: "Soul music is music coming out of the black spirit." For decades, it only reverberated around the edges of white pop music, injecting its native accent here and there; now it has penetrated to the core, and its tone and beat are triumphant...