Word: naacp
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...group of Harvard students plans to present $1000 to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) next week to help cover that organization's $110,000 bond needed to appeal a Mississippi lawsuit...
...NAACP is appealing a lawsuit it lost last September when a Mississippi court judge awarded $1.25 million to white merchants in Port Gibson, Miss. The shop owners had sued the NAACP for damages resulting from a 1966 boycott that protested discrimination against blacks...
...students contributing to the NAACP bond are members of an ad hoc committee that has raised approximately $900 since October 1976. The group raised money through collections in the Houses and the Freshman Union, and has sponsored a dance and a movie, Gary W. Martin '79, president of the Black Students Association and committee president, said yesterday...
...hoped to raise $2000, but the basic problem with raising money has been that most people do not know about the ruling against the NAACP," Martin said. Students have responded well overall, he added...
Worthy was born in Boston in the 1920s, the son of a doctor. During Worthy's formative years, his parents actively participated in the NAACP's struggle against segregation. A product of an intellectual family environment. Worthy was admitted to Boston Latin ("very rigid discipline but I learned a great deal") before matriculating at Bates College in Maine ("I considered Harvard, but wanted a small school away from home...