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...comes as no surprise that these attacks are happening now. Reagan sponsors brutal political repression through "friendship" with the likes of South Korea's Chun Doo Hwan, and lethal aid to the murdering junta in El Salvador. And on the home front, the racist "justice" in Greensboro set the stage for Reagan's America: it's open season on Blacks, workers and the left...
...Black student into its ranks. One finally made it through the rounds of parties and his name was brought up for election. But those who harbored hopes for his election forgot about another club tradition: black balling. Like the judicial role that let the lawyers for the Klansmen in Greensboro, N.C., dismiss possible jurors because they didn't like the look in their eyes, the black ball is a simple concept. Any member can reject any nominee for membership if he doesn't like something about the nominee--school background, personality, skin color, sexual preference or taste in shoes...
...mass rally, the culmination of a day's protest activities involving people from Boston, Birmingham, Ala., Chicago and Greensboro, N.C., was sponsored by the People's Counter-Inaugural Committee, an umbrella organization co-chaired by Michio Kaku '68 that represents more than 150 groups agitating for civil rights, prison reform, women's issues and nuclear safety...
Marlette came to Harvard this year as the first political cartoonist ever to be granted a Nieman Fellowship. Now the staff political cartoonist for the Charlotte Observer--a respected and liberal (at least for the South) daily--Marlette grew up in the South, in places like Greensboro, N.C., where he was born, and Laurel, Miss., where he did most of his growing up. And it was in the small towns of the South that Marlette learned the values that provide the subtext for his cartoons: the idea that the Constitution and the Sermon on the Mount amount to more than...
...Jesse Jackson, the civil rights leader, said that many Blacks believe that the recent murders of Black children in Atlanta, the rash of incidents on college campuses, and the Greensboro acquittals are part of a "nationwide conspiracy" against blacks. This sentiment, Jackson says, coupled with the election of Ronald Reagan, has resulted in "hysteria" in some Black communities...