Word: naacp
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Negro associations have worked mostly toward reconciliation with American society, continued Epps, on the assumption that they have taken on the accoutrements of American behavior and so should be accepted. But groups like the NAACP have made real progress only with legal mechanisms; the directness of James Meredith's action and the violence of reaction surprised them as much as anyone else and showed that the assimilation is far from complete...
Pickets from the NAACP, CORE, the American Veterans Committee, the Unitarian-Universalists, and the State AFLCIO filed around the hotel carrying placards protesting the rally. Violence erupted on the picket line when a Polish refugee tried to burn a Communist flag on the sidewalk, causing a scuffle. The refugee, Joseph Mlot Mroz, president of the Anti-Communist Federation of Polish Freedom Fighters, was arrested on a charge of disturbing the peace...
Hargis Hits NAACP...
Hargis attacked the NAACP as a "political pressure group, a powerful left-wing outfit for racial agitation." Boasting that the Christian Crusade has a higher membership than the "association for the agitation of colored people," he recommended that "fiery patriots should react not by bopping them over the head, but by ignoring them...
...addition, CORE, the American Jewish Congress and the NAACP have established a "J a c k i e Washington Fund" to pay court expenses. Among the other groups which have expressed interest in the Fund, though they have not yet affiliated with it, are the American Veterans Committee, the Catholic Interracial Council, the United Packinghouse Workers Union, the Unitarian-Universalist Service Committee and the Jewish Labor Committee...