Word: conductivity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Negroes made their crisis, but it was no spur-of-the-moment matter. King himself went to Birmingham to conduct workshops in nonviolent techniques. He recruited 200 people who were willing to go to jail for the cause, carefully planned his strategy in ten meetings with local Negro leaders. Then, declaring that Birmingham is the "most thoroughly segregated big city in the U.S.," he announced early in 1963 that he would lead demonstrations there until "Pharaoh lets God's people...
...Robinson. "My presence, I believe, has paved the way for others of my race." Carl T. Rowan, one of three Negro U.S. ambassadors, sees a broader implication in the success of individual Negroes. "Every Negro American in a position of responsibility who discharges his duty faithfully and well, whose conduct is laudable, is making a real contribution to the struggle by bringing along a segment of the white population," he says. "However, he is also obliged to speak out where speaking is called...
...months, 25% were Negro. Under past practice the figure would have been only 3%. At least 50 large firms are actively recruiting Negroes. They include A.T. & T., National Tea, IBM, Western Electric, General Electric, Standard Oil Co. (N.J.), RCA. Seven New York companies recently contributed $6,000 each to conduct an eleven-week course in grooming and confidence-building techniques to help Negro secretarial school graduates land jobs. Connecticut's Pitney-Bowes, manufacturers of mailing machines, announced a policy of preferential hiring for Negroes. In the South, R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. built a new plant in Winston-Salem...
...silence was that it had been handed a solution to the case by a kidnaper who panicked, turned himself in, and blew the whistle on his confederates. John Irwin, 42, an off-and-on house painter with a record ranging from assault to disorderly conduct in four states, was racing south from Los Angeles in a Chevrolet station wagon purchased with $1,000 of the ransom money. As he drove, his fears that capture was inevitable and flight was foolish mounted to terror. In San Juan Capistrano, Irwin stopped, put in a frantic call to his younger brother James...
...held her coat and Photographer Jean Kirkland took pictures-for a book on New York monuments, they explained. It takes proof of lewdness as well as nudeness to make a case of indecent exposure, but this problem did not arise; photographer, writer and model were all charged with disorderly conduct-acting "in such a manner as to be offensive to others." But for others to be offended, others have to be present, ruled Criminal Court Judge Richard Daly. Reluctantly he acquitted Monument Tice and friends, because near Wall Street that Sunday afternoon there had been nobody around but the pigeons...