Word: civilizer
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...most successful pieces of civil rights legislation passed in the 1960s, the law expires August 6. Black leaders and congressional liberals wanted to extend the provisions that now affect seven Southern states.* Literacy tests would continue to be banned. The Justice Department would retain the right to have federal registrars and examiners at the polls. Most important, the states and counties covered would continue to be prohibited from changing election laws and procedures without Justice Department approval. Case-by-case enforcement via the courts could be avoided, as at present...
...President's bill never had a chance in the Senate. Republican Leader Hugh Scott, a longtime civil rights advocate with a liberal Pennsylvania constituency, found the President's proposal unacceptable. So did Michigan's Philip Hart, chief Democratic sponsor of recent civil rights measures. Joining them were eight members of the powerful Senate Judiciary Committee. Resentful over Chairman James Eastland's action in reporting out the Nixon bill without a committee vote, they issued a 28-page position paper supporting an alternative bill. The substitute abolishes both literacy tests and residency requirements for federal elections...
Bitter Disappointment. Scott's was not the only voice raised against Administration civil rights policy last week. Health, Education and Welfare Secretary Robert Finch announced the replacement of Leon Panetta, the ousted Office of Civil Rights chief, with J. Stanley Pottinger, 30, a lawyer in HEW's San Francisco regional office. The appointment did nothing to soothe the anger of those who had supported Panetta. Two OCR officials resigned, 125 staff members sent the President a 1etter expressing "bitter disappointment" with the Administration's performance on civil rights, and' 1,800 departmental employees signed a petition...
Last week a carefully argued memo, written by Moynihan and intended for the President only, was leaked to the press - and created a furor. Countering the present pessimism about civil rights, Moynihan told Nixon that Negroes, in fact, made "extraordinary progress" during the 1960s. The family income of blacks considerably increased; the number of Negroes in professional and technical jobs doubled. Moynihan allowed that bitter hostility toward whites was widespread among young blacks and that the Nixon Administration had done little to reassure the Negro community. Nevertheless, he wondered if it was not time for "a period of 'benign...
...Moynihan and the Nixon Administration. The President liked the memorandum and asked for its wide circulation. It went to three other White House assistants, four Cabinet members, and no fewer than 25 copies circulated around HEW, where, Moynihan suspects, the leak occurred. Reaction from liberals was swift. Twenty-one civil rights leaders made a highly emotional public reply, complaining that the memo was a "flagrant and shameful political document." It all depended on how the memo was read: it was, after all, written in the context of White House infighting; it could easily be interpreted as a slightly veiled attack...