Word: frazier
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Korea, that Grace Kelly and Prince Rainier first revealed their engagement, and that Ernest Hemingway and Louis Untermeyer resorted to fisticuffs over some forgotten difference of literary opinion. For a quarter of a century, everyone who was not just an everyone dropped in. J. Edgar Hoover, Joan Crawford, Brenda Frazier, Rocky Marciano, Orson Welles, Helen Hayes, George Jean Nathan, Mary Martin, Tommy Manville, James Farley, Tallulah Bankhead, a freshman Congressman named Jack Kennedy-all came to be swept past the velvet rope...
...Johnny Frazier, chairman of the Greenville NAACP, was elected convention chairman. The MDC group then moved to elect co-chairmen, although the proposed constitution called for the election of a state president. A confused debate followed, during which the FDP group charged that previous understandings were being broken, that electing officers before the hearing of committee reports or the adoption of the constitution was out of order, and that many delegates driving to the convention would not arrive till the afternoon session...
...Frazier ignored the charges, ruled all objections out of order, and allowed the elections to continue, with the MDC voting its candidates to a majority of the offices...
More FDP supporters had arrived by lunchtime. When the convention reconvened, a motion was made to censure Frazier for his conduct during the morning and to remove him as chairman of the convention. Hodding Carter then stood up and asked all "true" YDs to follow him downstairs to a "true Young Democratic state convention." He, Cleveland Donald, and the MDC faction, in all about a third of the group, walked...
...like. "I'm quite clear on this. I was fascinated by the concept of a predominantly Negro institution," he recalls. He remembers Howard in the 30's as a mecca of Negro intellectuals whose academic and social concerns coincided, and fondly recounts bull sessions with the likes of Franklin Frazier, Abraham Harris, Francis Sumner, and Ralph Bunche...