Sentences with phrase «turbulent race riots»
After chairing the school's first Commission on the Status of Women as a Kansas undergraduate, Paretsky worked as a community organizer on Chicago's South Side during the turbulent race riots of 1966.
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The explosive growth of the conservative Christian school movement in the 1970s and 1980s was a response to the events and trends of the turbulent»60s: the consolidation of a secular science curriculum after the Soviet Union raced ahead in space exploration; the rise of the counterculture and the rioting in urban areas; and the Supreme Court decisions that restricted prayer and Bible reading in public schools.