Word: mayor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...office. "Have no fear," Evers pledged. "We're not going to allow our power to abuse you or mistreat you like you've mistreated us. We're going to show you what love and working together can do." In reply, promises of cooperation came from Mayor Allen and a defeated white alderman...
...long had an envied reputation as one of its most liberal towns. Home of the University of North Carolina, it was once called by Editor-Publisher Mark Ethridge "the capital of the Southern mind." Last week Chapel Hill chose Howard Nathaniel Lee, 34, a Negro, to be its next mayor-by 2,567 votes out of a record 4,734 cast. Lee is the eleventh black mayor in the South, but the first to be elected in a predominantly white Southern community. Said former Vice President Hubert Humphrey in a congratulatory telegram: "This is a new breakthrough in Southern politics...
...press conference. What about entering the race? "I am not a candidate, and I do not hope to be a candidate, but maybe I will be obliged to be a candidate," said Poher. Politicians streamed in and out of the Elysée to confer with him, and even Mayor Gaston Defferre of Marseille, the Socialist Party candidate, left the impression that he might move aside in favor of a true "third force" candidate between the Gaullists and the Communists...
Many church leaders nevertheless recoiled both at the tone of the document (it mentioned "armed struggle" if necessary) and at Forman's aggressive tactics in publicizing it. A few were ready to accept New York Mayor John Lindsay's offer of police protection for houses of worship. Others were obviously moved by the manifesto's charge that Negroes had been "kept in bondage and political servitude and forced to work as slaves by the military machinery and the Christian church working hand in hand." By week's end the General Board of the National Council...
...times," then talked his way into the lead item. Like most of the rest of the 60-minute program, it was about his arrival at KTLA. He ran footage of tributes from HEW Secretary Robert Finch, Senator George Murphy ("Tom is the only real threat to John Wayne") and Mayor Sam Yorty ("We didn't want to lose him") He traded compliments with KTLA Sportscaster Tom Harmon...