Word: civilizations
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Some conservatives," the Boston Globe has editorialized, "will not be overjoyed with the Brooke-Tsongas senate choice." Brooke is a well-known fighter for fair housing, aid to the elderly, women's rights (funds for poor women to have abortions, ERA) and civil liberties. In 1977, Tsongas received a 100 per cent rating from the Americans for Democratic Action. His strong points are energy, the environment, urban reconstruction and African affairs...
...Detroit two weeks ago, Fraser convened a meeting of trade union, civil rights, community organizing and political groups to discuss a program to counter what he sees as a resurgence of right-wing activism...
Shirley J. Wilcher, vice president of the Harvard Black Law Students Association and a third-year law student, said that Wilson's ideas are a "realistic step in terms of the civil rights struggle...
Stressing the importance of the economy to civil rights, Wilson said that solutions to problems like the energy crisis can provide jobs for the unemployed and also improve the standard of living of minority groups...
Wilson contrasted the work of the NAACP of the '70s with its old role, but she said that the group remains a basic, grass-roots civil rights movement. She said, for instance, that the organization's members recently helped post a $1.6 million bond in a Mississippi suit...