Word: naacp
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...King and the SCLC [Southern Christian Leadership Conference] pushed the NAACP into legitimacy and Marshall into a Supreme Court seat. Rap Brown and the brick-throwers pushed the SCLC into respectability and gave King the Nobel Peace Prize. And the Panthers have made everybody respectable." he said...
...well off, and their clothes suggest that they are even better off than that. The guest list is heavily studded with Jewish names, but it also includes a few McKay's and O'Connell's and even a Saltonstall. The guests at the head table represent Mass Pax, the NAACP, the UFW, the UAW, and an Afro-American arts center. Still, you wonder, beneath their mod exterior, how different are these Boston liberals from the older, straight-backed stereotypes...
Last January, the Center, with the NAACP Legal Defense League, charged that funds allocated for Indians are being diverted to while and middle class schoolchildren...
Professor Kilson has continually attacked the "legitimacy" of Black Studies. At the August 1969 NAACP National Convention, he proclaimed. "We are now in the era of fashionable movements. Advocates of fashionable movements act as if what they have embraced, was never recognized as worthy or important until they came along.... Many of the advocates of the Black Studies movement today prefer that the study of the Negro in colleges be organized in terms of one's prejudices and hates...
...peaceful development of black peoples, and an avoidance of catastrophic race war. If only the whites, "the deaf and dumb masters of the world," could recognize that such cooperation with blacks on the bases of equality is in their own interests . . . This heritage can still be seen in the NAACP of which he was a founder-member. He may have been wrong in this belief in inter-racial cooperation, proved wrong, it would seem, by American society itself. But even in disillusionment, with the obdurate persistence and provocative idiocy of racism in America, DuBois never turned to "black nationalism...