#50s-60s

[highbrow-hepcat]

[hollyjacks]

I have long been interested in the issue of checks (I really like this idea), and I have seen many movie star checks on the Internet: Marilyn and Ava, Greta and even Jean Harlow (this is really rare), but never, no matter how many times I look, I have not seen Grace's checks and no mention of these checks or any other information! And when I came to terms with it, and even forgot a little about it, this check suddenly found me when I was busy looking for other things! It is very important and interesting to me, because I share this with you with great joy!

[historyandchill]

Happy birthday Elvis you will always be in our hearts.

[wcwk]

"The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the anti-war left and Black people. We knew we couldn't make it illegal to be either against the war or blacks, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did." -interview w/ John Ehrlichmann, counsel and assistant to Nixon for domestic affairs (1994)

[wcwk]

Recommendations of the Kerner Report: federal jobs program to increase black employment, diversifying police forces nationally, and investment in housing programs to break up residential segregation in the North and South

"White society is deeply implicated in the ghetto. White institutions created it, white institutions maintain it, and white society condones it."

"The commission's report is a physician's warning of approaching death, with a prescription for life. The duty of every American is to administer the remedy without regard for the cost and without delay." -MLK Jr

[wcwk]

July 28, 1967-11 person commission (Kerner commission) formed to investigate the cause of the riots and give recommendations to prevent future unrest

February 29, 1968-Kerner Report: "Our nation is moving toward two societies, one Black, one white-separate and unequal"

 Claims riots resulted from Black frustration w/ lack of economic opportunity and access to mainstream American life

Called out failures in housing, education, and social services that went unaddressed by federal and state governments

[wcwk]

1967-Stokely Carmichael (former chairman of the SNCC) joins the Black Panther Party and coins the phrase black power. "This is the twenty-seventh time I have been arrested and I ain't going to jail no more! The only way we gonna stop them white men from whuppin' us is to take over. What we gonna start sayin' now is Black Power!"