Word: adame
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Other Vision. To many American Negroes, the acme of success is symbolized by the world of Adam Clayton Powell: the nirvana of the deprived, where the Good Life is also the Sportin' Life, and where power cruisers, beauty-queen girl friends and expense-account junkets are the talismans of achievement. At the other pole is the Negro's deeper vision of equality with white Americans in terms of individual intellect, ability and dignity. That vision is embodied by Senator Brooke...
...Brooke has worked effectively for racial equality. He helped prepare a 1950 brief that led to a U.S. Supreme Court decision to desegregate dining cars, and he has long been an advocate of fair employment practices in Massachusetts. Says Civil Rights Leader Bayard Rustin: "If you compare Brooke and Adam Powell on civil rights, you cannot immediately give the edge to Powell. Adam blocked granting of funds to the Urban League. He was absent for the vote on many bills, including civil rights bills." Floyd McKissick, CORE's national director and an advocate of black power, says that "the black...
...subtle threat than exile and expropriation is the black-African demand that the churches adapt their teaching and worship to indigenous culture in ways that threaten authentic Christian doctrine. In Kenya, there have been suggestions that the Bible be rewritten so that the first man and woman are not Adam and Eve but Gikuyu and Moombi, the primordial spirit-beings of Kikuyu legend. Zambia's Kaunda, the son of an ordained Presbyterian minister, believes that Christianity has wrongly stressed the "sinfulness and depravity" of man, and that Africa needs a more positive faith emphasizing human goodness. Africans, he contends...
...post, he will also help Adam Yarmolinsky '43, professor of Law in developing a program in Urban Legal Studies at the Law School...
Died. Graham A. Barden, 70, Democratic Congressman from North Carolina's Third District (southeast part of the state) and predecessor of Adam Clayton Powell as chairman of the House Committee on Education and Labor, a dedicated obstructionist who during 13 terms in Congress never wavered in his support of states rights and segregation, took pride in blocking education and labor legislation ("I never knew the Republic to be endangered by a bill that was not passed," he once said), notably in 1956 when he killed a $1.6 billion school construction bill; of cancer; in New Bern...