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Harvard Hillel, HUDS, the Southern Society, the Texas Club, and Kuumba are hosting this event. Enjoy southern-style grub and Kuumba performances while playing fundraising games. Cash donations will be accepted. All proceeds will benefit the NAACP Disaster Relief Fund, and will be matched by Harvard College. Thursday, September 29, 5:00-7:30 p.m. in Hillel, across from Tommy’s on Mt. Auburn...
Harper, 64, argued his first case before the U.S. Supreme Court just four years out of Harvard Law School as an attorney for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund in 1969. The case, Daniel v. Paul, pitted African-American residents of Little Rock, Ark., against an all-white club that had denied them membership...
...King’s actions made the civil rights movement the most talked about struggle of the early 1960s. The NAACP had been fighting in the courts for decades when King and others began their activism. It had won substantial victories. But not until King and others began to use radical tactics did the country begin to focus on civil rights. The liberal clergy King chastised in his letter wanted integration, but they wanted a cautious approach. The problem, as King points out, is that when nobody directly demands changed policies, officials feel free to continually put off doing...
...will be on the bench only a few years." Typically, too, appointees are male and white. Only four of Reagan's judges are black, eleven Hispanic, and 22 female. The long-term impact of younger white male appointments is troubling to liberal activists like Elaine Jones of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund. "They will just be hitting their stride in 15 years," she says. "In any question that pits the rights of the individual against the power of the state, we are going to see individual rights suffering." The President's judges are already pushing his message...
Unsurprisingly, African-American rights activists decried the film’s historical fallacy. In 1915, the NAACP issued a pamphlet calling the film “three miles of filth.” Riots erupted in Boston and Philadelphia and the film was prevented from being shown in eight states. Subsequent re-releases have been accompanied by lawsuits and protests; and in 1998, a large outcry erupted when The Birth of a Nation was named #44 in the American Film Institute’s list of the Top 100 American Films...