Word: viewing
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...Harry Dent, a Southerner whom he inherited from South Carolina's Strom Thurmond. Not only did Nixon avoid consulting his Commissioner of Education, Dr. James Allen, a liberal New York Republican, but the White House also dissuaded Allen from releasing an earlier memorandum of his own, expressing the view that integration is essential to equal opportunity in the schools...
...University, there is sharp disagreement among the traditional integrationists, best 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...
...view of the long and unyielding list of grievances, it is noteworthy that the majority still rely on orthodox methods of working within the system. When asked to assess the effectiveness of four different types of black leadership, a majority of blacks make the distinction that although militants may build up black pride, they are not necessarily the most effective. At the top of the list are "elected black officials," cited by 71% as "very effective." They are followed by "civil rights leaders, such as the N.A.A.C.P.," viewed as "very effective" by 67%, although by only 56% of the under...
...against Big Bill Lee for sheriff, is more compassionate: "Whites have been trained never to listen to blacks. Their minds are so messed up with hate, they just can't understand the problems of black people." Sitting in a gas station, Ernest Brown, 58, takes a longer view of the success of his fellow blacks. "All this is fine," he says, "but it can't make up for all the wrong that's been done. It can't ever do that...
Even more acutely, a number of experts suggest that many black children fail in school because that is precisely what their teachers expect of them. When teachers view students as uneducable, they say, the children eventually conform to that negative expectation. Those taught to feel worthless soon act worthless...