Word: bannered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...since John C. Calhoun, the champion of Nullification and states' rights, who "unfortunately has not been available since 1850." Bowing to the inevitable, Wallace flew up to Washington, D.C., last week to announce at a press conference that he will run for the job himself under the banner of his recently formed American Independent Party. "I fully believe we can win!" he cried. "I am in the race irrevocably...
...banner's blazoned folds...
With the aid of unemployed civil rights marchers and militant priests, Chavez, Alinsky & Co. ultimately won their strike. The revolutionary fever was slow to cool. As one union organizer put it afterward: "Success in our business means getting workers to middle-class status. The guy who carried a banner in 1966-well, in five years you're going to have a hard time getting him to a union meeting." It is that mood of inevitability that makes the anachronism of the Delano strike such compelling reading-and the strikers' success such a meaningful victory...
...Police Riot in Grove Hall" read the Bay State Banner, Boston's Negro weekly, after the city's disturbances in June...
Last night, Melvin Miller '56, the Banner's Editor, told a Harvard Law Forum audience that the white press ignored police brutality, at the scene of the melee. Encouraged by the Justice Department, papers avoided "upsetting" the public at the expense of writing the truth, he said...