Word: wonderers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...After reading about the "Affection Gap" [Sept. 23], I questioned myself as to just who dislikes President Johnson. It is plain that no man can satisfy all the people at all times. I wonder if it is not part of being "in" to dislike the man running the country...
There is little wonder that Boutwell approached with timidity the demand, raised during the 1963 demonstrations and frequently thereafter, to put Negroes on the force. Officials of the new mayor-council government privately assured prominent Negroes that the force would be integrated. But it seemed that Negroes just couldn't pass the stiff civil service exam administered by the county Personnel Board. Encouraged by city officials, Negro businessmen organized schools to train Negroes to take the test, while the city diligently quaried officials in some 89 other Southern towns to see how they had made out with Negro cops...
...section of Brooklyn blew. Calm had rested on the city like a highly flammable illusion through the record-breaking heat of early July. The Mayor's Office moved in nervously with quantities of community meetings and police re-inforcements at every hint of an outbreak. New Yorkers began to wonder if Lindsay's first summer would end without a baptism of violence in the ghettos. But, looking back, people will associate the summer of '66 with East New York, one of the city's many little-known ghettos, where the traditional Italian population has rapidly fled before an in-migration...
...graduate in the South could expect to earn a lifetime income of $6,250 great er than a drop-out. A nonwhite could expect only $1,820. With a lower return, greater pressure to begin to work to contribute to low family income, and cultural deprivation, it was no wonder that Negro youths generally quit school. But the situation is changing. Job discrimination is diminishing, and the value of a high school education will be rising in our advancing technology...
Some civil rights strategists are beginning to wonder aloud whether the time has not come to abandon demonstrations altogether-in Randolph's words, to "shift from the streets to the conference room." Many suspect that Negro protest marches may have lost the effectiveness that they undoubtedly once had and, indeed, may only foment white hostility. B'nai B'rith's Anti-Defamation League last week reported that in 1966 Ku Klux Klan membership has increased by 10,000, mostly in the North and the Midwest, to a nationwide total of 29,500, and concluded that irban...