Word: althea
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Conservative John Flanagan from West Roxbury, son of District Attorney Newman Flanagan, with 10.9 percent; Joseph Casper from South Boston, who campaigned on a law-and-order platform, with 8.2 percent; and Althea Garrison from Dorchester with 4 percent...
Many Black colleges are in financial trouble and need help from the federal government, said Althea T. L. Simmons, chief lobbyist and director of the Washington branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). Simmons said the NAACP would lobby for more funding because the budget proposal did not allocate sufficient money for the program...
Woods points out that she was one of the first second-generation Black female graduates of Harvard. Her mother, Althea Woods, a teacher in Los Angeles, graduated from the Education School in 1955. Julie Woods says she is "proud and honored" to be her mother's daughter...
...timely venture. A number of Black teachers have been lost to attrition, and a number are lost in the teaching exams, which are considered to be culturally biased," said Althea L.T. Simmons, chief lobbyist for the NAACP and director of the NAACP's Washington bureau. "This all adds up to a shortage for Blacks. The concept [of the program] is excellent...
Women were central figures in this Derby; it fizzed with equal opportunity. For the only time in 110 years, the pageant involved a female owner, trainer, jockey, horse and Governor. A filly entry of Althea and Life's Magic was the 5-to-2 pick, Swale the 7-to-2 second choice. The No. 1 post position, while symbolic of Althea's place as the first filly favorite in 49 years, constituted no honor. Waiting for 19 other horses to be loaded in the gate is hardship enough for any thoroughbred. But where three-year-old males...