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...Harper's Ferry, and publicly commemorated John Brown. By 1910 this movement became the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. DuBois left his Atlanta position, where his views were becoming too radical, and moved to New York. There he became the chief propagandist for the NAACP, acting for 23 years as the editor of Crises...
Surely most Boston voters have heard of Mrs. Hicks and know what she stands for. Since she refused, in the face of NAACP demands, to admit that de facto segregation exists in the Boston, schools, she has received extensive publicity. She has consistently emphasized her opposition to the NAACP and to every attempt it has made to integrate the sixteen predominantly Negro schools in Boston...
...results of the election suggest that Mrs. Hicks had profited by her opposition to Negroes' demands. When she first ran for School Committee two years ago, she finished with 40,000 votes. Arthur Gartland-the only member of the School Committee who has been willing to consider NAACP demands-ran only 1000 votes behind her then. Last week Mrs. Hicks increased her lead over Gartland; she had 128,000 votes to Gartland...
...difficult to call Mrs. Hicks' victory an unqualified mandate for bigotry. Mrs. Hicks seems to want less to harm Negroes than to ignore them-in a way which will give her' maximum publicity. Her reply to the NAACP was not a refusal to take action (in fact, the School Committee made a few minor concessions), but a denial that any problem exists at all. Perhaps many white voters supported her so that they could continue to ignore the problem, or simply because of the familiarity of her name...
Herbert Hill, national labor secretary of the NAACP, yesterday evaluated the civil rights bill now before Congress as "not worth the paper it's printed on. The Kennedy administration has compromised its integrity by cutting out the heart, the guts, of the bill," he said...