Word: separatist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Epps earlier said that if America was "surprised" by the appearance of the Black Muslims, it was because of historical ignorance about the Negro tradition of voluntary association. "The nineteenth-century separatist movements contain the basic components of the Black Muslim movement today," he said. "After the failure of the Populist movement and of Reconstruction and the enactment of the Black Codes, the surprises of seeing the 'new Negro' shouldn't be surprises...
Died. Sao Shwe Thaike, 66, first President of the Union of Burma from 1948 to 1952, hereditary leader of the Shan tribe, and thought by Burma's military to be a key man behind the Shan separatist movement; he was arrested in last March's coup, when troops surrounded his rambling Rangoon mansion and shot to death his 17-year-old son; of a heart attack; while under detention in an army camp outside Rangoon...
...well-bribed faction of Kalonji's own troops quickly joined the invaders. King Albert once again made his getaway; according to rumor, he took three cases of diamonds with him. At week's end the fleeing monarch turned up in Katanga, presumably getting sympathy from fellow separatist Moise Tshombe...
Caouette took full advantage of a growing wave of French Canadian separatist sentiment and disillusionment with the Liberal and Conservative parties, both dominated by English-speaking Canada. "You don't have to understand Social Credit to vote for it," he told those who failed to fathom the complexities of Social Credit...
...towns, paternalistically taught its workers to eat off plates and even sent some through high school (but no farther). When freedom-and chaos-came, La Génerale labored to do business as usual. Among other things, this meant paying millions of dollars in royalties and taxes to Katanga Separatist Moise Tshombe, enabling him to buy arms and defy the United Nations...