Word: benjamin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...action. And the N.A.A.C.P. filed its own suit last week to block department interference with the 50 affirmative action programs. It has scheduled a demonstration at Justice this Tuesday to protest Administration civil rights policies. Reynolds "is a right-wing, ideological nut in my judgment," says N.A.A.C.P. Executive Director Benjamin Hooks...
...week were indicted on charges growing out of use of these devices to torture four men arrested on minor drug charges. Mark Davidson, 18, unveiled in court a back and abdomen laced with dozens of "fried flesh" marks, as his lawyer put it. The allegations so outraged Police Commissioner Benjamin Ward that he forced the retirement or transfer of some 20 supervising officers, including the department's third highest official...
Unlike Robby, John Wideman's own life we marked by honors and accolades. At the University of Pennsylvania, John received a four-year Benjamin Franklin scholarship. Years later Wideman admits the irony in his attempt to be self-made man: "I wanted to be Horatio Alger, there seemed to be no limits ... being Black, you had to pretend. I knew I wasn't Horatio Alger and the world wasn't my oyster...
...occasionally use frozen first there's been a winter storm, but we prefer to use fresh fish," says Assistant Director of Food Services Benjamin H. Walcott...
...That hit the spot," recalls Benjamin Spock, 42 years and 30 million copies later. "The fact that he didn't say, 'We want the best damned book in the world'--I figured, Why not take...