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...rights. Between teaching and setting up the first formal civil rights course in any U.S. law school, Nabrit argued discrimination cases in eleven states and the District of Columbia. He won major victories in getting the universities of Maryland, Oklahoma and Texas to admit Negro students, did much to abolish white primary elections in Texas. In 1954, joining Howard-trained Attorney Thurgood Marshall before the Supreme Court. Nabrit helped win the ruling against public-school segregation...
...Line, steel, textiles and Walter Reuther's United Auto Workers. "The entire labor movement bears guilt for the existence of racial disadvantage to workers of color," said Randolph. "The large majority of the leaders of the great, powerful labor unions are not likely to voluntarily move vigorously to [abolish discrimination] unless there is some political leverage of pressure brought upon them from time to time. It is unfortunate that so many of our liberal friends, along with some of the leaders of labor, even yet do not comprehend the nature, scope, depth and challenge of this civil rights revolution...
...repudiated him and his program would be defeated. On and on he rambled, fervently, insistently. Then the passer-by went his way, and Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson-disheartened by the failure of his programs, burdened by the staggering costs of farm subsidies that he had once hoped to abolish, damned by farmers, ignored by Congress, repudiated by many fellow Republicans -finished his meal in lonely silence...
General Gursel briskly set to work to abolish all trace of the repressive measures Menderes had imposed. He freed 200 students and nine newsmen, licensed 14 banned newspapers to start publishing again. Ahmet Emin Yalman, dean of Turkish journalism, published his first art:'c':e since his release from prison last month: "The Turkish armed forces are marching forward with giant steps on the road opened by Ataturk." General Gursel fetched seven professors from Istanbul to help draft a provisional constitution. One was Istanbul University President Siddik Sami Onar, who was badly beaten by Menderes' police when...
...rabidly nationalistic Afrikaans press was having second thoughts. The day before the riots, the Johannesburg Vaderland called for a "simpler and less hurtful pass system." The influential Cape Town Die Burger urged moderation on Prime Minister Verwoerd. But Verwoerd obstinately said that "nothing would be done" to abolish the pass laws, and belatedly discovered that the demonstrators at Sharpeville had "shot first," even though no one found arms on the Africans...