Word: naacp
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Thurmond spoke on "Muzzling the Military," in a program sponsored by the American Institute, a patriotic anti-Communist organization. Outside the hall, on Stuart and Berkeley Streets, members of the NAACP, CORE, and the Massachusetts American Veterans' Committee protested the Senator's views on civil rights, the cold war, and military censorship in a 75-man picket line...
...violent leaders are silenced by jailing or Red-baiting them, the violent factions will gain control of the integrationist movement," Braden claimed. The NAACP is already losing some members who are discontented with the slow progress made through peaceful action, he added...
...February 24 sit-ins will be part of extensive anti-segregation demonstrations being conducted by the Baltimore Civic Interest Goup in conjunction with the Northern Student Movement, the NAACP, the Congress On Racial Equality, and other biracial organizations. According to plans for the projected demonstrations, biracial groups will enter restaurants in the Eastern Shore area of Maryland and leave peacefully if requested to do so. Under Maryland law, however, a trespasser cannot be ordered of the premises of a business open to the public until the management has read the state trespass acts...
John Lowry, whose talk was sponsored by the Harvard Students for a Democratic Society, made the statement in defense of the policy of "meeting violence with violence advocated by the Monroe NAACP president, Robert F. Williams...
...emphasized, however, that the basic pattern of protest must be one of non-violence. Because of misunderstandings about the meaning of his statement, Lowry added, Williams has met with resistence from other integration leaders and has been suspended from his NAACP post...