Word: progresses
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...most promising signs of future racial progress is the way in which growing numbers of blacks unite behind black political candidates. Working at precinct and small-town levels, blacks are seizing levers of local power in city halls, county seats, school boards and sheriffs' offices. Without broad black backing, Richard Hatcher could not have been elected mayor of Gary, Ind., nor could Carl Stokes have been twice chosen mayor of Cleveland...
...such efforts serve to strengthen blacks' conviction that they can eventually compete with whites, but in a sense these steps can offer only distant hopes for real interracial progress. Proud as he is of his pact with A. & P., Jesse Jackson concedes that it accomplished little toward eliminating racism in the Chicago area. "We didn't change the hearts of the executives," he says. "We simply changed the behavior
...million Americans, 22.7 million or 11 % are black. The most striking indicator of their political progress is the continuing rise in the number of Negroes holding elective public offices at local levels. A new survey by the Metropolitan Applied Research Center shows that there are now 1,469 black officials in the U.S. Among these are 168 state legislators, 48 mayors, 575 other elected city officials, 362 school-board members and 99 law-enforcement officials...
Lewis adds, "This is a community that says to blacks: There'll be no more tokens, no more favors. You've made all the progress you're going to make.' " That has not been very much. Wichita is one of the most residentially segregated cities in the U.S.; by recent estimates, less than 1% of its blacks live outside the ghetto in the northeast section of town. Carl Bell Jr., a former mayor, figures that if black movement out of the ghetto increased tenfold, it would still be some 40 years before black housing became diffused...
...Harvey Russell, the PepsiCo community affairs chief, who eight years ago was named a vice president. "Even though I was proud, I remember at the time feeling that all the attention just pointed up the gross inequities," he says. "It made me even more aware of how little progress really had been made." Russell considers that "much of what industry does today is a smoke screen...