Word: naacp
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...assistant to the Cambridge City Manager for Community Relations, Thompson is also president of the Cambridge Chapter of the NAACP. He graduated from Roxbury Community College, and has worked in the Harvard Extension Program...
CARSON CITY. Nev.--The U.S. Supreme Court yesterday rejected an appeal by the NAACP Legal Defense Fund to stay the execution of convicted murderer Jesse Bishop, who says he wants to be executed as scheduled...
Bishop was convicted for murder of David Ballard during a hold-up in Las Vegas in 1977, and has opposed the NAACP's efforts to prevent his execution...
Civil rights leaders cheered the decision. Said Benjamin Hooks, executive director of the NAACP: "Had we lost this case, the cause of affirmative action would have been set back ten years." The reaction in many boardrooms was relief. Before the ruling, employers were caught in a bind. If they gave minorities a break to remedy racial imbalance in hiring, they risked suits from rejected whites like Weber. But if they had a racially imbalanced work force and did nothing about it, they risked getting sued by minorities as well as the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC); they also stood...
Koblitz said he believes the letter will also be constructive in encouraging alumni to aid financially the International Defense and Aid Fund for Southern Africa, the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, Phillips Brooks House and other organizations of this nature...