Word: naacp
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...many organizations and individuals who helped us, we would especially like to thank the Southern Education Reporting Service, the Southern Regional Council, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and the National Scholarship Service and Fund for Negro Students. The NAACP also kindly let us use some of the many excellent photographs in their files...
...boycott, of course, had nothing to do with schools. But if some of the principles of Montgomery could be applied to educational integration, slow but lasting progress is likely to result. And, indeed, slow progress is all that can be hoped for. This is not to say that the NAACP should not continue putting test cases through the local courts: it should. Nor is it to say that the U.S. Justice Department has been diligent in prosecuting violations of civil rights: it has not. Nor is it to argue that the President has exhibited the warm creative leadership that...
...demanding, firmly and quietly, something less than the ideal, indeed aiming publicly for that middle position? We think the latter way--at once flexible and firm, quiet and forceful--is the better answer. To win the legal principle, it was necessary and right for groups like the NAACP to carry their test cases as far as possible, and press for sweeping rulings that would require federal action for implementation. But the principle, as far as law goes, has been won, and new tactics are required. Pressing for extremes now is not likely to achieve a synthesis...
...mean by gradualism and moderation: the Montgomery bus boycott. It was a local affair. Local leaders began it, for limited, local goals. It did not even aim at complete integration on busses; it merely sought the right for Negroes to sit in white sections during crowded hours. The NAACP here operated at its best: its local members were acting not as pawns of what appears to many Southerners as a dangerous outside organization, but as respectable citizens of Montgomery. And for this attitude, and the quiet strength of the movement, the Negro in Montgomery gained new respect, as well...
...daring a most unfavorable reaction, Stevenson has managed to break new ground on the integration problem, even in the midst of a touch-and-go campaign. As yet there has been no similar Republican effort in this direction. Nixon's statement that he is an honorary member of the NAACP seems calculated only to rile a South which still holds itself proud. Certainly Nixon's approach can have no constructive effect. But the President is capable of a dignity which might possibly carry off an Eisenhower version of Stevenson's "direct confrontation." It remains to be seen whether President Eisenhower...