Word: fauntroy
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Just who was this man, and where did he get off telling South Africa's Ambassador how his country should be run? No matter. Randall Robinson, 6 ft. 5 in. of polished brass, kept boring in. Accompanied by several civil rights advocates, including District of Columbia Delegate Walter Fauntroy, Robinson went to the South African embassy on Massachusetts Street in Washington and demanded of then Ambassador Bernardus Fourie that the Pretoria government release its political prisoners and extend civil rights to blacks. Fourie demanded that his visitors leave, but Robinson and the others refused. Arrested, they spent the night...
...conference this July, to insinuate that homosexuals are “sinners.” The amendment also draws support well beyond the religious right. Three of the bill’s six cosponsors in the House were Democrats, and even members of the Civil Rights movement like Walter Fauntroy, who helped organize Martin Luther King Jr.’s march on Washington, have offered their support...