Word: civilizer
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...warning on environmental hazards resulted in requests for more than 300,000 reprints. The very first ad in the series, Savitt Tobias Balk Inc.'s reflections on the meaning of Independence Day, drew immediate requests for 10,000 reprints. The ad was used in a civil liberties case and recently won the Freedoms Foundation George Washington Medal of Honor...
...America's urban black population," he continued, "their rise to large numbers in the cities comes as the machines and the many jobs they offer have largely dried up. No other ethnic group in America's cities had to rise in the face of good government and civil service...
...South. With an outward joy that failed to conceal their inner anger, blacks were singing, praying and chanting together in a common cry for social justice. Though relatively quiet for nearly two years, they have all along resented the shift of the nation's protest from civil rights to the war and the environment. But the Nixon Administration's Southern strategy, accenting law and order and a slowdown on school integration, rankled deeply. Then came armed peace officers blasting away with guns at Kent State and Jackson State and in Augusta−and once again the excessive...
...what its S.C.L.C. organizers called a "march against repression." Following symbolic coffins and two mules nicknamed "Nixon" and "Lester," the marchers arrived after four days of uneventful travel under a blistering sun to be joined by some 9,000 noisy, but nonviolent advocates of "soul power" in the biggest civil rights rally in the South since...
Barbers' Razors. In some less urbane areas than Atlanta, the racial tensions seemed more ominous and violence prone than in the early days of the civil rights movement. In Jackson, where Mississippi state troopers had raked a crowd of black demonstrators with at least 250 shots, killing two, outraged Negroes marched almost daily through the' streets. Rumors grew of more rioting to come, and the public schools were closed. White homeowners rushed to buy guns, and young blacks walked about with long barbers' razors purposely allowed to protrude from their back pockets. Eight ghetto stores were firebombed...