Word: houston
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lieutenant, U.S.A.F. Houston...
...went to work for the N.A.A.C.P. "temporarily" under his old law-school mentor. Charles Houston, but by 1938 admitted it was a permanent double-time job. His salary then was $2,600 a year. (Present salary...
Before World War II Marshall had succeeded Houston as chief counsel of N.A.A.C.P. He won some key victories: against a union which had closed-shop contracts but discriminated against Negroes; against discrimination in the U.S Air Corps, a long step toward the present desegregation of the armed forces; against the Democratic Party of Texas, which claimed that it was a private organization and could make its own rules barring Negroes from voting in primary elections. The River Pilots. Toward the end of the war, N.A.A.C.P. leaders began to face the failure concealed in the success of if separate-but-equal...
...Honolulu last week, 1,300 bishops, priests and laymen of the Protestant Episcopal Church met under Presiding Bishop Henry Knox Sherrill for their 58th triennial general convention-the first held outside the U.S. continent. The site was the result of controversy: Houston, originally chosen, had been rejected for its racial segregation. But controversy continued to break out at the convention itself...
This called for a scapegoat, and there was one handy: National Committeeman Wright Francis Morrow, the silver-haired, wealthy Houston attorney who, arm in arm with Shivers, helped guide the rebellion of '52. Morrow was as far out of favor as Shivers; for two years the national committee had steadfastly denied him a seat...