Word: call
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...TIME'S cover story on poverty [May 17] prompted these thoughts: I believe that if we spent just one-half of what we now allow for Aid for Dependent Children on the building and staffing of good resident institutions-call them orphanages if you must-and set up the legal and social-work procedures needed to get a majority of hard-core poor children into these institutions at an early age, we could make some real progress toward eliminating the evils associated with poverty. Children must develop in something other than a degenerating social and physical environment if they...
...gutbucket style gained him quick recognition, and in 1951 he was named pastor of the First Baptist Church of Montgomery, where he also joined the N.A.A.C.P. He approached civil rights with the same intensity as he did the Bible. So it was not surprising that he got the first call for help after Mrs. Rosa Parks, a Negro seamstress, refused to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery bus in 1955, thereby launching the most protracted-and successful-nonviolent protest in American history...
...evidence was presented to the jury by Assistant U.S. Attorney John Wall, 32, a former paratrooper and Army intelligence officer. In addition to snowing several film clips, Wall read militant handbills and news releases issued by the defendants, bearing such titles as "Civil Disobedience Against the War" and "A Call to Resist Illegitimate Authority." Wall challenged the defendants' not-guilty pleas by quoting Dr. Spock, who in December had told FBI men: "I'm well aware that I could wind up in jail because of my illegal activities...
...dramatically saved from nearly three-quarters of a century of inelegant decay by a variety of bold, even spectacular renewal projects. Business confidence, lost by a succession of amiable but frequently corrupt mayors, was restored, private investment increased, and "the Hub," as its citizens still sometimes like to call it, once more was the center of something...
...able civil engineer -was put in charge of the Model Cities program; a welfare mother was named to the public-welfare board, whose highhandedness she had protested in a raucous sit-in. As a result of White's concern for Negro neighborhoods, his critics now call him "Mayor Black...