Word: naacp
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...years later, the installation and preservation of quotas are apparently top priorities for prominent civil rights leaders like Benjamin Hookes, executive director of the NAACP. When Wards Cove was handed down, Hookes threatened "civil disobedience, on a scale that has never been seen in this country" if it and other decisions were not reversed. "Racism," he declared, "is the most important problem facing Black America...
...fame and fortune." So these days Fulghum (pronounced Full-jum) tends to write a lot of checks to charities. Then again, he was always devoted to good works. "I never stopped supporting the efforts of those devoted to world peace, like the Quakers, or SANE, or Greenpeace, or the NAACP. Only now I have more to donate...
...meaning he wants to change to the "growth and opportunity party"--Kemp's conservative credentials are impeccable. Besides opposing high taxes. Kemp supported the Nicaraguan Contras and has stuck to his anti-abortion ideals. No wonder liberals were confused when he received three standing ovations at last summer's NAACP conference in Washington...
...staff bashes freedom of association in its quest for equality, it should pause to consider the importance of that freedom. Freedom of association does more than guarantee the rights of racists and sexists to privately congregate. The most renowned Supreme Court cases involving freedom of association protected the NAACP and the Communist Party from government intrusion...
...TMFONT 1 d #666666 d {Source: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund}]CAPTION: WHO'S ON DEATH...