Word: naacp
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bennett hasn't proves to me what his position is on community participation," said Kenneth I. Guscott, president of the Boston NAACP. "He should come to Boston and defend himself before the executive committee...
...duties of each United Minstry member differ. Men like Ernst Klein, whose responsibilities to their congregations give them less time for wide spread activities like Mumma's, still manage to make significant contributions. Klein, for example, persuaded his church to finance a $500 group membership in the NAACP...
...applicants is made up of members and supporters of the virtually all-Negro Freedom Democratic Party (FDP). The other consists mainly of representatives from college Young Democratic clubs in the state who are supported by the Mississippi Democratic Conference (MDC)--a bi-racial coalition of NAACP, organized labor (AFL-CIO), and white moderates who fear...
Johnny Frazier, chairman of the Greenville NAACP, was elected convention chairman. The MDC group then moved to elect co-chairmen, although the proposed constitution called for the election of a state president. A confused debate followed, during which the FDP group charged that previous understandings were being broken, that electing officers before the hearing of committee reports or the adoption of the constitution was out of order, and that many delegates driving to the convention would not arrive till the afternoon session...
During the ensuing months Clark worked to assemble the army of social scientists who were to testify, and during the trial he analyzed the opposing arguments and organized the rebuttal. "I thought our job was done when the case got to the Supreme Court," Clark says. But the NAACP lawyers decided that the psychological evidence, much of it precedent-shattering, would be more effective as a separately bound brief, so Clark, along with Isador Shein and Stuart Cook, prepared the now famous brief, which, smiles Clark, "to our pleasant surprise the Court accepted...