Word: naacp
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last night the Committee continued to resist attempts by NAACP leaders to force a discussion of grievances voiced by Boston's Negro community. Demonstrators were planning another march tomorrow on the Committee's office at 15 Beacon...
...Boston School Committee has refused to meet with the NAACP group, maintaining it has already established an ad hoc committee of 10 Negro leaders to discuss school problems. The NAACP charges the ad hoc group is "hand-picked," Schwabacher said, and "would do nothing" in pressing for the resolution of Negro grievances...
...courts to go along with him on this one. Mr. Meredith's "inflammatory remarks" consisted of calling for a general boycott of "everything possible" by Mississippi Negroes; he made these remarks in the context of a statement on the death of Medgar Evers, state field secretary of the NAACP. Mr. Meredith was reprimanded by the appropriate Dean and has promised not to do it again. Although it would seem, then, that sufficient disciplinary measures have already been taken, Gov. Barnett apparently is not convinced...
...remarks of a national CORE official at Harvard last week and the atmosphere of the NAACP convention reflect a disturbing attitude which appears to be growing in civil rights organizations. Encouraged by some successes both in achieving actual integration and in alerting the Negro population to the feasibility of action, some leaders, in their understandable militancy, have dangerously overstated their demands...
Responding to pressure for greater activism, the NAACP last week passed numerous resolutions backing vigorous activity in the battle for legal rights. The NAACP apparently did not notice, though, that one of the most radical competitors for Negro allegiance, the Black Muslims, have become popular partially because of their emphasis on self-improvement programs. The demand for militance obscured the need for the NAACP itself to prepare Negroes for work in an industrial and rapidly automating economy. Because the current slack in the economy has created intense competition for jobs, the problems faced by the Negro worker are more formidable...