Word: naacp
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Lawyers Aid NAACP...
...lawyers have been working for more than three years for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), on behalf of the plaintiffs in Boston's school integration case...
...William J. Reid, headmaster of the school, said yesterday that he found the charges "totally ridiculous." He commented also that he had no idea why the NAACP would want to move the school...
...Boston Red Sox have a systematic policy of racism. It's fruitless to argue specifies did black so and so get traded for white so and so--but in a general sense the Red Sox record in race relations is somewhat less honorable than that of the NAACP. Boston was the last franchise in the major leagues to sign a black player--passing up Jackie Robinson and Willie Mays to do so. When they finally did take one on, it was a woefully inadequate infielder named Pumpsie Green, who quickly became a laughingstock. Since then, no black players have made...
...Tools. Critics were quick to call the report premature and unsubstantiated. NAACP Executive Director Roy Wilkens wondered whether Coleman was being used to "draw the Negro away from the courts." But Coleman still firmly believes in school integration. The problem, he says, lies in the way that courts have tried to bring it about. "It is ludicrous to attempt to mandate an integrated society. Integration must come through other means...