Word: abolitionist
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...correct this has been to produce thin supplementary books that fill the gaps in Negro history, ranging back to the fairly rich empires of 8th century Africa. They show the degradation of U.S. slavery, profile such authentic but little-known Negro leaders as Suffragette Mary Church Terrell and Abolitionist Frederick Douglass. They span the terrors of lynch law and report on today's freedom marchers. Best of the supplements are Doubleday's Zenith Books, written in a sixth-grade vocabulary but with an adult perspective...
...civil rights issue exploded in the mid-1930's. "That gave us a chance to speak out, a chance to show people we were interested." Pope John's support of ecumenism also helped shape a brand of world-conscious religion that has not been seen in America since the abolitionist movement of the 1850's, Cox explains...
...back, to his face he was more properly addressed as "Mr. Ambassador," and in Affairs at State, retired U.S. Diplomat Henry Serrano Villard, 65, describes him and his breed with an insider's sympathy and savvy. He is admirably equipped for the job. A great-grandson of Abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison, Villard joined the Foreign Service in 1928 after graduation from Harvard and a brief try at teaching and journalism, spent the next 34 years in outposts from Tripoli and Teheran to Rio and Oslo as the U.S. inexorably enlarged its international role...
...Facto Abolition. For all the current abolitionist enthusiasm, the death pen alty has in fact been dying for some time. The country's murder rate is 40% less than it was in the 1930s, and more murderers are being committed to men tal institutions. Modern penology has swung from retaliation to rehabilitation, and paroled murderers rarely murder again. Even states empowered to execute are loath to do so. While rejecting abolition, Massachusetts has not executed anyone since 1947. New Hampshire has put no one to death since 1939. According to the most recent Gallup poll, only 45% of Americans...
...slightest evidence suggesting how many people who never commit murder are in fact deterred by the death penalty. The electric chair* thus remains in 23 states and the District of Columbia, the gas chamber in ten states, the noose in six, the firing squad in one (Utah). Indeed, ten abolitionist states have restored the death penalty in the past, usually after some brutal crime. Missouri did so in 1919, for example, after two hoodlums killed two policemen in a gunfight. Conversely, Oregon provided abolitionists with an unexpected argument when it restored the death penalty in 1920. Within a year...