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...group of younger blacks had left the meeting. Evers dispatched Cole to get them and proceeded to hear the story of the people still in the hall. Apparently there had been a minor dispute over what night to hold the Democratic Party meeting and what night to hold the NAACP meeting. The argument, while trivial on the surface, illuminated the split in that county between the younger and the older black leaders...
...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...