Word: naacp
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Harwood, who described himself as a Southern "liberal" favoring gradualism, criticized the NAACP for its lack of moderation. "There are larger issues confronting society...barriers in men's minds which must be eradicated cannot come down by force alone...
Speaking on "NAACP--Hindrance or Help," before a Harvard Society for Minority Rights audience of 250 people, Wilkins denied the charge by Richard Harwood, Louisville Times reporter and Nieman Fellow, that the NAACP had used force in trying to implement the Supreme Court's decision on integrated schools...
...NAACP will continue working actively until Negroes are "recognized as citizens and achieve all the rights to which they are entitled under the Constitution," Roy E. Wilkins, NAACP Executive Secretary, stated last night...
...want recalcitrant states to do is to begin to make a beginning in the right direction. Whenever such a step has been made, the NAACP has taken no action, and has tried to help. No lawsuits have been filed in states such as Arkansas, West Virginia, Oklahoma, and Missouri," he pointed...
Strong police protection, however, is ineffective without a calm atmosphere, and in this respect the NAACP has not been exactly lily-white. For days before Miss Lucy's enrollment, sensational statements played her up as an heroic trail-blazer for The Cause of Integration. Undoubtedly, Miss Lucy is blazing a trail across the Cotton Belt; but unless the NAACP sought also to make her a martyr, it is hard to understand why that organization's publicity should lead so directly to the very tension that should be avoided. An occasional "no comment" might, in the long run, be more effective...