Word: bayards
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Margaret P. Swope, 77, widow of onetime New York World Editor Herbert Bayard Swope and quick-witted hostess to the wittiest writers, sportsmen and politicians of her time; after a long illness; in New York. For almost three decades she presided over a dazzling salon as she and her husband mixed repartee and reason with such cronies as Al Smith, Harpo Marx, Gene Tunney, Ethel Barrymore, Bernard Baruch and Dorothy Parker, often at their Long Island mansion, which F. Scott Fitzgerald immortalized as the setting for The Great Gatsby...
Economic aid for the poor--not Black or White racism--is the way to end racial strife, Bayard Rustin, organizer of the 1963 Civil Rights March on Washington, told a sympathetic audience filling Lowell Lecture Hall last night...
...Bayard Rustin will speak at 8 p.m. tonight in Lowell Lecture Hall at the opening of the New England Conference on the Freedom Budget...
...society, of labor unions, Negroes, liberals, radicals, religious groups, minorities. It recognizes the imperfections in each element, but conceives of such a coalition as the only real basis around which a movement can be built. Again, it is unfortunate that the reporter finds this "conventional." The question is, as Bayard Rustin (who will speak tonight in Lowell Lecture Hall) emphasizes, what is the alternative? Local ferment and community organization, in the style of SDS or black power militants, are an important and invigorating force for change. But they are only a complement, not a substitute, for a political coalition that...
...Bayard Rustin & Company agree with the principle of the early civil rights movement, but not with the new spirit of Negro equality. "We must see to it that in rejecting 'black power,' we do not also reject the principle of Negro equality," warns Rustin. Radical blacks today are saying that material equality is not enough, but this seems all that Rustin is willing to give them. They may not know exactly what they're asking for, but it's more than money...