Word: naacp
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Kennedy would do well to remind the nation that the fields of civil rights and civil liberties are inseperable. In the recent case of Daisy Bates v. Little Rock, for example, the Supreme Court upheld the NAACP's right to withhold the names of its members. But in the Uphaus case, Justice Clark's majority statement bowed to the State's right to determine whether there were subversive persons in New Hampshire. Since Arkansas deems the NAACP a subversive group, Southern lawyers have been given a new legal leg to dance on, and are using...
...United States, and particularly the South, is now 'celebrating' the Civil War centennial. In the midst of lauding this great source of sexy novels, it is likely that the hundredth anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation will be forgotten. And yet "Free by '63" is still the NAACP goal...
...limitation of Uphaus's freedom of association illustrates how little segregation and civil liberties decisions really impinge upon each other. When Alabama tried to force the NAACP to hand over membership lists, the Court answered that group privacy is indispensable to freedom of association. Since Wyman was cooperating with Attorney Generals from 37 states in compiling a blacklist, there is little reason why the Alabama decision should not apply to Willard Uphaus as well...
...states practice. Hodges pointed out that the "safety valve" aspect of this plan allows North Carolina "to pinch off trouble spots in the state without jeopardizing the education of all citizens." Assignment of students in that state is now broad enough to stymie any Court condemnation, Hodges commented. The NAACP has called the Pupil Placement Progam "one of the most difficult obstacles to integration in the South" perhaps because of this "disarming moderation" itself, he added...