Word: harassment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...result of these policies, the NAACP has come under a rather intense legal fire in many of the southern states, which appear determined to hound and harass that organization out of existence. The NAACP has been a prime mover in bringing school segregation cases into the federal courts to get specific desegregation orders, and because of this legal activity against school districts which refuse to comply with the Supreme Court ruling, the association has been branded as subversive and dangerous...
Dirty Money. While they harass and hope, the rebels are worrying plenty about the makeup of their movement. To help pay the bills, they take soiled money in Miami from ex-President Prio. Leadership is split between Castro himself, the Havana plotters and a shadow government of sympathetic exiles in Miami. The conservatives at the top fear that the longer they stay behind their desks while Castro is in the hills getting headlines, the smaller their influence on him will be. Recently he summoned five of the Havana brains to the hills for a conference, and they had to turn...
...Edwards ally, State Senator Fletcher Morgan, started an investigation that, he hinted, might last for the next two years, until the legislature reconvenes. "That means a two-year period to further harass and sabotage the program," says Dr. Flipse. At week's end Governor
...SOUTH: The Attorney General would have the right to burst into all sorts of situations where he has no business, harass and thus drive from public office state or local officials whom he might suspect and, in a sense, have the unthinkable power of actually making laws. Example: he could get a court order breaking up a White Citizens' Council meeting...
...soldiers and their families) would wreak havoc with the livestock, tweed, seaweed and egg-packing industries. Said he: "The range will have to be built over our dead bodies." When the Air Ministry showed no disposition to re-roost its rockets, 16 crofters flew to England to harass the aliens on TV. Last week Father Morrison began talking ominously of his "trump card," a scheme to have the entire flock of crofters emigrate to Canada. "It would cause a revolution in Scotland," he prophesied. Of his own role in the fight, Morrison says: "The tradition here is that the clergy...