Word: counseled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Drafted into the Army during World War II, Abernathy used his G.I. bill to attend Alabama State College, graduating in 1950 with honors in sociology. He stayed on to teach history and counsel students, and took up preaching for $40 a Sunday at a tiny church in Demopolis. His gutbucket style gained him quick recognition, and in 1951 he was named pastor of the First Baptist Church of Montgomery, where he also joined the N.A.A.C.P. He approached civil rights with the same intensity as he did the Bible. So it was not surprising that he got the first call...
...presenting its case to the all-male jury, the prosecution charged that the five conspired "to unlawfully, knowingly and willfully counsel, aid and abet" young Americans in evading the draft. Lawyers for the defense answered the charges with the argument that the free-speech guarantee of the First Amendment shielded their clients from prosecution...
...former vice dean of the Harvard Law School, Magruder was a general counsel of the National Labor Relations Board 1934-35 and of the Wage-Hour Division of the Labor Department...
...Counsel for the defense had originally said that the case was an opportunity to test the legality of the war in Vietnam and the nation's draft laws...
...will not be easy for whites to accept counsel or direction from blacks. But nothing short of that is likely to be successful. On the course toward genuine union with his black brother, the white's first step is perhaps the hardest of all. It is to acknowledge that he and not the Negro must change his attitude. Above all, he must accept his majority share of responsibility for the race problem. If the white is genuinely concerned about forming a useful coalition with the black, he will certainly have to drop his guard-and, beyond that, he will...