Word: lynching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...managing editor of Kansas City's crusading Negro weekly, the Call, for eight years, and as a fulltime N.A.A.C.P. worker for 32, he was a racial rebel in the days when the white man's answer was not just a paddy wagon but, all too often, a lynch mob's rope...
Slowly, tortuously, the lynch rate fell from 64 in 1921 to 28 in 1933 to five in 1940 to, for the first time, none in 1952. To be sure, white hoodlums still love to lob bombs at the homes of Negro leaders, but the last real lynch killing that the U.S. has known was that of Mississippi Negro Mack Charles Parker in 1959. Says the N.A.A.C.P.'s Wilkins: "We have completely changed the thinking of the country on lynching. At one time it was defended in the Senate, and even in the pulpit. There is no comparison now with...
...Paper Decrees." Once the struggle against lynch law was won, the N.A.A.C.P. could give top priority to another drive-against segregated education. By deliberate decision, the organization made that assault not so much in the press, or on the streets, or in the lobbies of Congress, but in the courts. N.A.A.C.P. Special Counsel Thurgood Marshall pleaded the cause of school integration before the Supreme Court, was upheld in the historic decision of 1954-and in the minds of many Negroes at the time, that decision opened the way to real racial equality...
After years of being described as "We, the People," the Wall Street brokerage house of Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith decided to live up fully to its nickname. Merrill Lynch had made itself the world's biggest broker-with 152 worldwide branches, 526,000 account holders and $900 million in assets. Last week, breaking the traditions of a clubby business in which firms are customarily held by only a few partners, Chairman Michael McCarthy, 60, announced Merrill Lynch's intention to sell its shares to the public if he can get the New York Stock Exchange to approve...
Readers readily second Frommer's theory that luxury hotels with English-speaking staffs "and a branch of Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith in the lobby" tend to insulate Americans from the very Europe they came to see. Frommer receives 1,000 testimonials each year from a list of tight-fisted correspondents that includes schoolteachers, ministers, engineers and architects. But some of the raves are qualified...