Word: hire
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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SWEET CHARITY. The bitter life of a taxi dancer (Gwen Verdon) who is tired of being for hire but can't find a man for forever...
...resolution also asks if any attempts have been made to hire non-student help to make hp for the lack of student help cited in last week's decision...
Last February, a white man shot into a crowd of Negroes picketing the Liberty Supermarket. The already effective demonstration picked up, and the huge store, losing $100,000 per week in Negro business, agreed to hire Negro checkers. But Negro civil rights leaders planned one more demonstration--a march on the courthouse to protest city inaction in other areas, such as hiring Negro policemen. Leaflets calling for the late-March demonstration also recommended a "period of self-denial"--Negroes would not buy new clothes for Easter "to call attention to the need for renewing our commitment to justice...
Among downtown businessmen, word spread that the Negroes planned to go store by store through the down-town shopping district, boycotting each one until it agreed to hire vast numbers of Negroes. Two of the city's most powerful businessmen called in the Rev. Joseph Lowery, a middle-class minister who had helped organize the courthouse march. They promised that if the boycott were called off, Negroes would be in uniform by the third week in April; not seeing a way to effect the boycott in any event, Lowery agreed. The businessmen kept their promise. "When these racial things flare...
...mayor's assistant--he, rather than the mayor, briefs newsmen, but asks that nothing be attributed directly to either--said that the city would like to hire "many more" Negro police, that those who had been hired would be assigned to cars with white cops. "But don't print that," he added. "We'd lose our entire police force...