Sentences with phrase «most black citizens»
The authors note the wealth of teachers unions and the role that their dollars play in keeping the national civil - rights leadership in line with union priorities — against the wishes of most black citizens.
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They are not about to champion the Socialist Workers Party, slain Black Panthers and New Left activists — although these are only the most outrageously maligned of the multitude spied upon, which included such sterling citizens as Eleanor Roosevelt and thousands of ordinary, tax - return - filing Americans.
Most of the good jobs were held by White citizens while the Blacks worked as domestic servants and farm hands.
Bernie Year: 2011 Director: Richard Linklater Bernie is as much about the town of Carthage, Texas, as it is about its infamous resident Bernie Tiede (Jack Black), the town's mortician and prime suspect in the murder of one of its most despised citizens, Marjorie Nugent (Shirley MacLaine).
Overall, the demographic groups most opposed to the opt - out movement are black people (67 percent) and senior citizens (68 percent).»
It is an act that drags his adult children, his black maid, and Jake into a conflict as riveting and dramatic as the murder trial that made Brigance one of Ford County's most notorious citizens, just three years earlier.»
If economic class continues to be one of the most bitter flash points in American politics, race is, ever, the other, and never more so than in an election year marked by surges of xenophobia and instances of police violence directed against black citizens.