Word: firebrand
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...offset the remaining $30,000 debt of the Jackson campaign. In his defeat of Mayor Sam Massell last October, Jackson polled 21% of the white vote. That was a considerable achievement. Massell gave the contest an appallingly racist tinge by branding Jackson a do-nothing and a potential black firebrand in a last-ditch effort to scare up white support. The Massell strategy backfired with the voters and many whites quietly switched their allegiance to Jackson...
...Sumner, firebrand senator from Massachusetts who took to the U.S. Senate floor to launch a direct onslaught on slave-holders, was judged unfit to be professor at the Harvard Law School. He recognized the reason and described it clearly in a letter to his brother: "I am too much...reformer...to be trusted...
...chief of a prestigious newspaper goes to the funeral of a one-time presidential contender. A series of flashbacks and anecdotes develop the relationship between the bureau chief (an old Southern boy who bears a more than passing resemblance to Wicker himself) and the presidential contender (once a young firebrand from the same state as the bureau chief, who in his later years retired on the job in the Senate...
...modern four-block complex to be built only two blocks from the dilapidated S.C.L.C. headquarters on Auburn Avenue, the center is expected to cost over $6,000,000. Abernathy said Mrs. King had been unwilling to share funds with his strapped civil rights organization. King's onetime firebrand protégé, Hosea Williams, criticized her for not sharing $67,000 raised earlier this year at an Atlanta benefit concert featuring Flip Wilson and José Feliciano and recorded by RCA Records, with a $50,000 advance to the King Center...
Aggravating the conflict was the arrest Friday of AIM Firebrand Russell Means in Los Angeles. Means faces eleven counts on various charges in connection with the takeover. When a Deadwood, S. Dak. court caught Means in a technicality relating to the filing of his $25,000 bond, Judge Andrew W. Bogue revoked the bond, and a warrant was issued for Means' arrest...