Word: armstrong
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reservoir of good will built up by the Harlem Globetrotters, Ralph Bunche, Marian Anderson, Louis Armstrong and millions of other solid American citizens of Negro ancestry is being drained by people like Adam Clayton Powell [March 10]. His only defense appears to be that other Congressmen are also guilty, which is no defense...
...Advancement of Colored People. He had actively participated in a boycott of white stores that followed the bombing of another Natchez N.A.A.C.P. official's car in 1965. Worst of all, he had just accepted a promotion-with a 17?-an-hour raise-to mixer of chemicals at the Armstrong Rubber Co., a position previously held by whites only...
Linking Arms. Within hours, Negroes were marching the hilly streets to protest the killing. State N.A.A.C.P. Field Secretary Charles Evers led some 2,000 to watch the changing of shifts at the Armstrong plant, which, he says, is infested with Ku Klux Klansmen. Evers, whose brother Medgar, another civil rights worker, was shot to death in front of his Jackson, Miss., house in 1963, warned whites that the patience of Natchez Negroes was just about exhausted. "Once we learn to hate, they're through," he said. "We can kill more people in one day than they've done...
...take Jackson's murder more seriously than similar incidents in the past-most notably, the still-unsolved slaying of two young Negroes whose dismembered bodies were dredged from the Mississippi River in 1964. The board of aldermen put up a $25,000 reward for the killers, and Armstrong, which has so far pleaded inability to keep Klansmen off its payroll, chipped in another $10,000. Mississippi Governor Paul Johnson called the bombing an "act of savagery which stains the honor of our state...
...volatile public breakthroughs to equality of a Jackie Robinson or a James Meredith. He has triggered none of the frustrated fury of a Stokely Carmichael, written none of the rancorous tracts of a James Baldwin or a LeRoi Jones, drawn none of the huzzahs of a Louis Armstrong or a Joe Louis, a Willie Mays or a Rafer Johnson. He has never sought or wanted to be a symbol of negritude. There have always been two ways for members of minorities to rise: through purely individual achievement and through involvement in group action. But in the U.S., there is room...