Word: goodlett
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Francisco Sun-Reporter (circ. 9,600) has been published for 29 years by Carl ton Goodlett, 61, a physician who won the $4,000 downpayment for the weekly in a poker game. Since then it has ranked as one black paper whose righteous anger never falters. The president of the National Newspaper Publishers Association, Goodlett describes himself as "an irritant. A pain. But to those who will listen, I'm a catalytic agent for change, a positive force for the reduction of political violence and economic racism in America." His position of not-so-chic radical makes...
Many blacks are outraged by the sweeping man hunt. Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett, an official of the National Newspaper Publishers Association, an organization of black publishers, complains: "You can't compromise essential freedoms for temporary safety." Lawyers for the N.A.A.C.P. sought a temporary restraining order in federal court, arguing that blacks have been subject to "unlawful and indiscriminate stopping, searching, interrogation, detention and arrest without warrant or probable cause." The American Civil Liberties Union and Legal Defense Fund will also seek a restraining order; both suits will be heard next week by U.S. District Judge Alfonso J. Zirpoli...