Word: naacp
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...feet 4½ inches, Jordan cuts a formidable figure. In 1961, while Georgia field director of the NAACP, he cleared a path through an angry white mob and led the first black coed into the University of Georgia; the image of Jordan shielding Charlayne Hunter from students screaming threats and obscenities remains among the indelible Southern memorabilia of the early 1960s...
...trustee of the Fund for Peace, a member of the Executive Council of the Greenville Clark Institute for Enforceable World Law, and a life member of the NAACP...
...could spend his senior year working in iron and coal mines, railroad yards and Chicago slaughter houses. Hapgood went on to become a leader of the United Mine Workers, a defeated Socialist candidate for Governor of Indiana, a major organizer of the CIO and an early member of the NAACP...
...black South with fresh and indisputed evidence of the irrationality of its circumstance. A response was inevitable. The investment in the dream had been too heavy for its foreclosure to go unresisted. The response came in Montgomery the day Rose Parks, a respected former secretary of the local NAACP, refused to obey a bus driver's order to yield her seat in the forward part of the jimcrow section of a crowded...
...pandemic among black Americans. However, "There is a man in America named Elijah Muhammad. His followers are called Muslims. Not even one per cent of the black people in American follow Elijah Muhammad. And out of all the 30 million black people in America-take your Urban League, your NAACP, your CORE, take all your black power groups, and they don't match one-quarter of the progress and power Elijah Muhammad is making with cleaning up dope addicts, wineheads, prostitutes, lesbians... buying airplanes, farm lands, factories, schools, newspaper plants... [The Muslims are] 300,000 people with a purpose, with...