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ATKINS did not stage a Brooke-like campaign. As a student in the Law School, and a former militant executive of the Boston NAACP, Atkins ran for the Council last year as a progressive spokesman for Roxbury. In a mild upset, he came in seventh among eighteen for one of the nine city-wide seats...
...South wouldn't have to merge its two school systems all at once, Warren said. Instead, it would have to take steps toward desegregation "with all deliberate speed." Negro parents, NAACP lawyers, and the few Northerners who were familiar with the situation soon learned to despise that phrase...
...list of appointees includes Vernon J. Jordan Jr., director of the Voter Education Project of the Southern Regional Council and a former Field Director of the NAACP. Jordan is the first black to be appointed a fellow in the three-year history of the Kennedy School Program...
...introduction to the town was in a federal court-room in Oxford, Mississippi. There, on a sticky August day, three lawyers for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund had brought county officials to trial in a school desegregation case. First on the witness stand was Mrs. Lee Dora Collins, mother of nine and obviously pregnant, in her early thirties, she was well-built and looked strong. She unfolded her story without hesitation...
Humphrey's announcement seems to have accomplished the once-impossible--it united the wildly disparate interests of John Connally of Texas, George Meany of the AFL-CIO, and Clarence Mitchell of the NAACP. In other words, leaders of Democratic interest groups have reached something of a consensus...