Word: lunches
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...referendum will be held in House and Union dining halls during lunch and dinner...
...movement has now shifted its objectives from the integration of public facilities to the more basic problems of voting, education, and job opportunities. In carrying out the extremely successful Mississippi Project last summer, COFO concentrated on voter registration and freedom schools and did not integrate a single lunch-counter or hotel. This shift comes from a growing realization that winning the right to buy a hamburger in a white lunch-counter is a dead-end, and is meaningless for Negroes who do not have the money to pay for one anyway. Only when Negroes can vote, or exercise power...
...touch with the local people. In Albany, Ga., in Birmingham, and in St. Augustine, he selected a city where other civil rights groups were already working, flew in for several weeks, fired up local Negroes to heated protests, and departed. Behind him, he leaves a few gains--integrated lunch counters and public buildings--and a lot of broken bones. There is no real attempt to train local leadership or to develop long-range programs...
Sunday, at lunch, Dr. King dropped a couple of casual remarks about discussing this or that with the President. I mentioned this to a friend last night; he laughed and told me I had it all wrong. "When Lyndon Johnson says he talked with Martin Luther King--that's name-dropping." Which underlined for me how far our Nobel Laureate, natty as a J. Press ad in his three-piece continental suit--(no cuffs, laceless black shoes), is from the scarred and faceless Negro worker who's getting the hell beat out of him in Mississippi. It was Martin King...
...consensus was that RGA should recommend that interhouse at Radcliffe be available more often than twice a week and that the meals include either Wednesday night dinner or Sunday lunch...