Word: abolitionists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bookstore specializes in Negro history, which is why it carries the name of the Negro abolitionist. But Teixeira says it also caters to political activists, and he pointed out his extensive selection of Marx...
...right of petition has been abridged on occasion, as in 1836 when the House of Representatives' "gag rule" cut off abolitionist demands. Fortunately, the right has survived all such challenges. If, however, the petition is to remain a meaningful force for "redress of grievances," it must be employed more sparingly-and as a precise, if impassioned, plea rather than as a manufactured publicity device...
...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...