Word: naacp
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week, the NAACP went before the Mercantile Affairs Committee of the Massachusetts House with well-documented evidence on what amounts to an up-dated slave trade. Working with Southern affiliates, Boston agencies advertise in Dixie newspapers, offering feminine domestic jobs at $35 to $60 a week. Upon arriving in the North, the girls find their work much heavier, and their salary much lower, than promised. Suddenly they owe the agency a large, mysterious, unitemized "fee." If work is not immediately available, the agency holds their luggage and threatens them with "the law." Many girls spend months working themselves...
Beached in Jackson yesterday, Weaver said he did not know why only he was not indicted. He said he planned to confer with a lawyer from the NAACP Legal and Defense Fund last night...
...Hicks so concerned with legal equality for all Boston's citizens. Yet there are obligations more pressing than equal opportunity for prosecution. If the Committee were really devoted to principles of equality, it should not have defeated Arthur J. Gartland's motion directing the group to cooperate with the NAACP in forming a commission to work with the Harvard School of Education to devise a "Boston Plan" for school integration...
Gartland also stood alone in supporting a motion to cooperate with the Boston branch of the NAACP in the form of a six-man commission to work with the Harvard School of Education on a "Boston plan" for school integration...
Lowe's comments on the failings of the Boston schools are forthright and articulate, and he states them with intense energy. Yet he is not a firebrand, nor even a political activist. While valuing the services of Negro organizations like the NAACP, Lowe was rather skeptical about the tactical worth of Mel King's candidacy for the School Committee. He insists on concrete methods and concrete results; politics encourages ideology and acute racial self-consciousness, both of which he dislikes. Lowe heartily resents all kinds of discriminatory abuses, but he is reluctant to to call segregation the chief problem facing...