Word: caucus
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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LaDonna Harris, director of the Policy Council of the National Women's Political Caucus, will speak at 6:30 p.m. tonight in the Dudley Junior Common Room in Lehman Hall...
Congressman Charles Diggs, Chairman of the House Sub-Committee on Africa and the first chairman of the Black Caucus, told Bok in a telegram that...
...here, and any investment, whether you can affect it by withdrawal or not, buttresses the damn thing. The Corporation never deferred to the African voice. The OAU (Organization of African Unity) has said they want Gulf out. Frelemo, PAIGC, MPLA have said they want Gulf out. The Black Congressional Caucus has said they want Gulf out. Rutabanzibwa, the Tanzanian Ambassador, said so. The Vice President of Zambia said so. The overwhelming African voice has said to Bok that it is in our interest to have Gulf out. To have you out of Gulf and to have Gulf out of Angola...
...telegram to President Bok, Rep. Charles E. Diggs (D-Mich.), chairman of the House Subcommittee on Africa and former chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus, endorsed the takeover of Mass Hall and other protests by students as "necessary actions to demonstrate their deeply-felt opposition to your Corporation's stated position. It is a position that is morally bankrupt and unworthy of an institution with such a reputation...
...Black caucus that met in Gary, Ind. [March 27], had as its raison d' être the roots of prejudice. Its members built rhetoric on the atrocities of discrimination. They said they stood for justice and against exploitation of human beings. And yet how easily they ignored the only group whose fortitude truly challengs the foundatios of prejudicial thinking, whose political aims so closely reflect those the caucus gave lip service to− women. So firmly entrenched are we in the roots of prejudice that even the discriminated against act in turn to discrimate. Does anyone doubt it that...