Word: braden
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Carl Braden, white integrationist leader released two weeks ago after a prison term for contempt of Congress, charged yesterday that progress in civil rights and integration in the South will halt unless the House Committee on Un-American Activities is abolished...
Frank Wilkinson and Carl Braden, speaking at the Community Church of Boston, claimed that the Committee had investigated them because they had criticized it, and support projects of which its members disapproved...
...Supreme Court upheld the convictions of Braden and Wilkinson for refusing to answer questions about personal contacts and associations in a 5-4 decision on February...
According to Braden, the First Amendment "has been eroded for the past 23 years. It's pretty well gone...
Howe said that the Supreme Court's recent decisions on the Braden and Wilkinson cases "were not meant to give the Court's blessing" to the HUAC. The decisions, he explained, "merely said Congress had the right to keep such an absurd body going." He remarked, "If the Supreme Court were the House, it would vote to abolish the Committee...