Word: club
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When a Birmingham church was bombed in 1963 and four black Sunday-school girls were killed, a young white lawyer named Charles Morgan Jr. stood up before the businessmen's club and blamed the entire white community for the crime. Driven out of his town by harassment and death threats, he returned to the South in 1964 as the director of the American Civil Liberties Union Southern Region. He sued for integrated prisons and juries, legislative reapportionment and voting rights, and defended the likes of Muhammad Ali, Julian Bond and Mississippi N.A.A.C.P. Leader Aaron Henry...
...Club vice president Kenneth G. Lucero '80 and secretary Nancy E. Achin '81 last Monday sent President Nixon a personal letter asking him not to accept the club's invitation to speak here in the spring. Lucero said yesterday the adverse publicity that followed the club's invitation "could only hurt the club...
Richard W. Berenson '80, Lucero's campaign manager, distributed posters early last week condemning "Kathy Duey (the club president) and the Gang of Four" and supporting Lucero's candidacy for president...
...Duey said she thinks the posters "are just a manifestation of deeper division" within the club leadership. Other club members are hesitant to carry out "risky" policies because they are afraid the community may lose respect for the club, she added...
Lucero said Duey emphasizes "strictly policy" while he would like the club to sponsor movies, internships, and trips for its members and the Harvard Community...