Word: bimini
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...question is what to do about it." Notably absent were the N.A.A.C.P.'s Roy Wilkins, the National Urban League's Whitney Young Jr., and Martin Luther King Jr. Harlem's Adam Clayton Powell, honorary co-chairman of the conference, decided to keep on fishing in Bimini. Conference leaders discouraged delegates from talking to reporters; one white newsman was pitched out of a ground-floor window and four others were roughed up when a gang of young Negro militants barged into a press conference screaming: "Get the Whitey press...
...Pussy Cat, a 23-ft., 550-h.p. Sportsman worth $20,000, was barely clear of the harbor when it caught fire and burned to the water line. Minutes later, Bill Lewis' 40-ft. Formula came apart and sank. Only 32 boats reached the initial checkpoint at Bimini; of these, twelve never reached Nassau...
...Powell's new election certificate arrives in the House Clerk's mailbox some time next week, nobody is quite sure of what will happen. Powell could force a showdown by appearing in person to demand admission, but thus far he has shown no inclination to leave his Bimini retreat. Representatives who want Powell admitted could force the is sue by seeking to reverse the House decision to exclude him, but they are likely to be defeated. If anything, congressional sentiment has hardened against the preacher-playboy in recent weeks. "The reasons for excluding him in the first place...
...week Adam Clayton Powell kept New York in an uproar over whether he would return to Harlem from his Bimini exile on Palm Sunday. In the end, he disappointed his followers by deciding to tarry a while in his island sanctuary...
...Tetched." In 1962, Meredith risked his life in the battle to integrate the University of Mississippi. Last year, while taking a "march against fear" through his home state, he had shotgun pellets fired into him by a white racist. But from far-off Bimini, Powell, whose zestful pursuit of the sporting life has betrayed the Negroes' trust in him for years, branded Meredith as the "white man's candidate...