Word: civilization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...champions of equal rights for women cavil. In 1964, granddaughters of the original suffragettes managed to insert a clause into the Civil Rights Act forbidding job discrimination based on sex. But draftable females were less than ecstatic. "Now that would put real meaning into Uncle Sam's saying 'I Want You,' " noted Manhattan Model Mason Susanne Boyd, 23. "The old lecher...
...urging of Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie, the antagonists in Nigeria's 14-month-old civil war assembled in Addis Ababa last week to talk peace once again. Three previous meetings, the most recent three months ago in Kampala, had come to nothing. This time Ethiopia's venerable Lion of Judah told his guests, who represented the federal government in Lagos and the Biafra secessionists: "You cannot afford to fail. You must succeed. There is no alternative." Then he added: "We would like to appeal to you earnestly to refrain from polemics." Both appeals went unheeded...
Mississippi's state bar, for example, withdrew a resolution welcoming out-of-state lawyers. In Alabama the threat of prosecution for practicing without a state license has kept visiting civil rights lawyers away for more than a year...
...nation's top law firms-filed briefs in Sobol's support. They were also speaking for all the lonely Negroes in remote Southern jailhouses, the people for whom the presence of lawyers like Sobol has often meant the difference between life and death. Early in the civil rights movement, Southern lawyers tacitly accepted visiting lawyers. Few local white lawyers wanted to defend Negroes anyway. It was not until the out-of-state attorneys won a substantial number of victories on their own that some Southern states began trying to ban the intruders...
...captain accused of cruelty to juveniles in Plaquemines Parish, La. To handle Duncan's case and to aid other Southern Negroes, Sobol gave up a comfortable $24,000-a-year post with a top Washington, D.C., law firm and joined a group of attorneys who are serving the civil rights movement...