Sentences with phrase «toward racial equality»

The Reporter was founded in 1972 by John A. McDermott to measure Chicago's progress toward racial equality as the civil rights era ended.

Forty - five percent of Americans say the country has made a lot of progress toward racial equality in the 50 years since the Civil Rights Act of 1964, according to a Pew Research Center poll.

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He was to become recognized as a perceptive observer of the racial developments of the 1960s, a time when Martin Luther King's patient march toward equality began to give way to more violent methods of direct confrontation.

In an interview with Indiewire, the filmmaker was direct about the political implications: «You can get on your soapbox, you can push your political agenda or your religious agenda, against gay marriage, against racial equality, but you can't argue about these people in their home... Equality as a concept isn't something I think we ever achieve, it's something we make progress toward, and hope that we don't slip back and lose any of it.