Word: civilize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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TIME tried some fancy rewriting of history when it reported [Feb. 16] that the N.A.A.C.P., the United Automobile Workers, and the Americans for Democratic Action "killed" Part III "out of the 1957 [civil rights] bill by mutual agreement." I would like to set the record straight on behalf of all three organizations...
...bill that passed the Senate in 1957 was a "bitter disappointment" to the civil rights organizations, as they made clear at the time. But the choice was substantially the Senate bill or nothing; we preferred even small progress to political recrimination, and we urged enactment of the bill...
...Supreme Court's desegregation decisions], and we have never stopped working. The pending Douglas-Javits-Celler bill, which contains not only Part III of the 1957 bill, but also wise and generous assistance to Southern communities seeking to integrate their school systems, has the backing of the civil rights organizations...
Erin Grievances. In Milwaukee, Robert D. Sullivan lost a primary election for a civil judgeship by 2,954 votes, two days later fulfilled a previously made commitment to lecture the West Allis Kiwanis Club on "The Luck of the Irish...
...book. When the bomb finally goes off, it is not so much an exclamation point as a period to a narrative that has told all but judged nothing. Who is to say that the half-mad sad-sack hero really is different from the nihilist leader, or that the civil servant's allegiance is so far removed from the revolutionary's? Author Biely makes the reader work toward the answers...