Word: progresses
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...desire the good things in life, which so many other Americans have already gained; these things are now taken for granted by the white middle class and have even become somewhat boring. In this sense, black militants are very different from young white radicals. They do not spurn material progress but want a greater share of it-along with freedom and equality. They are indeed faithful dreamers of the American dream- but scandalously hampered in turning that dream into reality for themselves...
Today most blacks and thoughtful whites have accepted the fact that leadership on the magnitude of a Martin Luther King is uncommon in any race or time. This realization has contributed to a new mood among the blacks who now form the vanguard of the mass drive for racial progress. They are angrier than ever, more impatient with social, economic and political servitude, and even more determined to revolutionize race relations and achieve full equality in American society. Although blacks were never in full agreement with all of King's tactics, they now look less longingly for any single...
...fractionalized. Many blacks would argue that it always has been, but that the condition is now more readily recognized by all blacks as a positive asset. Strongly linked by a fierce pride in their very blackness and by outrage at continued white racism, the movement's leaders are pursuing progress on many highly specialized fronts. More than in the past, the assault on inequality, the use of black pride and power, is taking place on the local community level. The lack of national voices makes the decibel level of black protest seem lower. Actually, the many local voices have been...
...symbolized by King and the N.A.A.C.P.'s Roy Wilkins; the black nationalists, of whom CORE's Roy Innis and US's Ron Karenga are leading spokesmen; and the Marxist-oriented revolutionaries, represented by the Black Panthers. In Hamilton's view, the integrationists have discovered that their classic techniques of progress through the courts, the Congress and the Federal Government are no longer as effective as previously. The nationalists, who appeal to black pride and push for black studies, local control of their communities and black political and economic power, are gaining strength. At the same time, more blacks are becoming...
Respect will also come, as Jackson and many of his peers among the new black leaders see it, when the slowly expanding middle class in black communities commits itself more completely to racial progress rather than self-service. "The black doctor should study medicine in order to improve public health and not just to secure personal wealth," warns Jackson. "The black lawyer should study law to distribute justice, not just to secure a judgeship. The black teacher should teach to spread information and not want to tear the school down for a $10 raise...