And here, on the sidewalk outside was a gang of white boys come to heckle, a ragtail rabble, slack-jawed, black-jacketed, grinning fit to kill, and some of them, God save the mark, were waving the proud and honored flag of the Southern States in the last war fought by gentlemen. ... This case "_became the cornerstone of sweeping changes (Chalmers 17)" because the decade following the Brown decision "_witnessed a complex interplay of forces between black citizens striving to exercise their constitutional rights, the increasing resistance of southern whites, and the equivocal response of the fed...

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Richard Reeves, Visiting Professor of Journalism at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California, is an author and syndicated columnist who has made a number of award-winning documentary films. ...

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Four Dead In Ohio On Thursday, April 30, 1970, President Richard Nixon told the American people that we were sending troops into Cambodia. This upset many Americans because Nixon was brought into office due to his promise to end the war. In his first year of presidency it looked like the end of the...

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Franklin's New Deal brought water to California's Central Valley, gave Appalachia electricity and saved farms all over the Midwest. ... Both of these men worked together to end segregation in a lot of southern states. ...

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During the 1850's abolitionists in the North questioned the morality of southern slavery by writing and preaching about the rights blacks were denied. ... Southern blacks faced new discrimination every day whether it be economically, socially, or politically. ... The 14th Amendment conferred civil rights and citizenship for all former slaves, and was incorporated into the requirements for a southern state to regain its statehood. ... In elections, southern states used poll ...

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Wallace, who before the running in 1968 was thought to be "small time," and a southern racist. ... After losing the election for governor of California in 1962, Nixon announced that he would no longer seek any government-affiliated office. ...

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President Kennedy was never able to mobilize sufficient support to pass a civil rights bill with teeth over the opposition of segregationist southern members of congress. ... Rioting mobs in the Negro suburb of Watts, California, pillaged, burned and killed, while 500 policemen and 5000 national guardsmen struggled in vain to contain their fury. ...

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