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...Frank Church's committee, drawn from testimony spanning 800 witnesses and thousands of pages of government documents, revealed how powerful government surveillance tools were misused against the American people. For instance, the FBI's COINTELPRO operation spent more than two decades searching in vain for communist influence in the NAACP and infiltrated domestic groups that, for example, advocated for women's rights. The Church committee's work led to creation of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and later to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act--reforms that largely held until the Bush years. (See George W. Bush's biggest economic...
...criticized for not taking more disciplinary action against officers in the Seattle Police Department charged with brutality and misconduct. A 2007 citizens review report said Kerlikowske's failure to discipline his officers was a "trend." The NAACP called for his resignation over his handling of police officer misconduct accusations...
...Hayward said. There was also great excitement surrounding the Harvard chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, which was reactivated by students from across the University on Wednesday night. Jarell L. Lee ’10 emphasized the enormous impact that the Harvard NAACP could have on the larger Boston and Cambridge areas. “We have made progress, but our communities are still plagued by dilapidated schools with teachers who do not care, jobs that do not pay enough and a host of other issues,” Lee said. “There...
...with the rise of more confrontational styles of protest in the 1960s came doubts about the NAACP's comparatively passive legislative and judicial tactics. Membership declined through the 1990s, when executive turmoil and near bankruptcy led some to question whether the organization would even reach its 100th anniversary. It will, on Feb. 12, just weeks after the swearing-in of the nation's first African-American President, who began his political career in Springfield. Could there be a better birthday present...
...gathered to re-charter the Harvard chapter of the historic organization last night. In front of nearly 75 attendees, HLS student James A. Nortey addressed the lack of social justice and civil rights initiatives on campus. “This is Harvard University. How can there not be an NAACP?” Nortey asked. The organization’s current on-campus absence may be part of a larger statewide trend. Once known for bitter anti-discrimination battles and struggles against segregated Boston public schools, the NAACP Boston chapter has become less vocal in recent years, according...