Word: naacp
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...June, 1961 the Monroe NAACP, of which Williams was vice-resident, decided to picket the town's only public swimming pool. Previously, they had requested that it be desegregated, or at least opened to their children once a week. The town's officials refused: even if the Negro children were allowed to use the pool alone, it would cost too much money to refill it so that the white children could go swimming again...
...Civil Rights Act of 1960. But once the case is relevant to an investigation of police practices now being conducted by several civil rights organizations in the Boston area, it is likely that the matter will be pursued. CORE supplied Washington with his lawyer Edward J. Barshak, and the NAACP and the American Jewish Congress helped raise funds to pay legal costs...
Kenneth Guscott, president of the Boston chapter of the NAACP, declared Saturday that "the most effective way to deal with the differences we have with Gov. Barnett on the issues of segregation and discrimination is to present Gov. Barnett with a large, integrated audience who will listen with courtesy to his ideas...
...participants were Louis M. Lyons, Curator of the Nieman Foundation; Deputy Police Commissioner John Howland, Traveler columnist Blake Ehrlich, Herald editorial writer Anson Smith; Elmer Foster, Mayor Collins' Citizens' Relations director; and Richard Banks, vice-president of the Boston NAACP and chairman of the Citizens' Committee on Police Practices...
Other panel members will include Richard Banks, vice-president of the NAACP; State Rep. William P. Homans, Jr. (D-Cambridge); Kermit Morrisey, assistant to the president of Brandeis University; and representatives of three Boston newspapers...