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...executive director of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), speaking at a Lehman Hall press conference yesterday, said that Blacks have been neglected by the Republican Party but exploited by the Democrats in recent years...
...legislatures enforced laws banning from campuses speakers who pleaded the Fifth Amendment or refused to sign non-Communist affidavits, or threatened to "do violence to the academic atmosphere." Mississippi officials used such a statute in the late 1960's to keep Charles Evers and Aaron Henry, president of the NAACP, from giving speeches at state universities. These examples should remind us that educational institutions can never take free speech for granted and that its enemies come from many different ideologies and dogmas...
...election, some blame will be ascribed to Ferraro's gender. Risks are inherent in emotionally charged politics; expectations can be raised far too quickly and frustrated. For some Blacks, the swing in national focus away from race is a political distraction. Ferraro's nomination, says South Carolina NAACP Co-Chair Adelle Adams, "may be a breakthrough for White women, but not for Black women or Black men." Then too it has been noted that a woman has merely won a shot at the vice presidency, second place, a ceremonial...
Reaction to the high court ruling among anti-death-penalty activists was subdued. Lawyer incompetency is a common claim made by death-row inmates, notes Steven Winter of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund. But while he considers many of the claims justified, "very few of those win, and I don't think the Washington case is going to change the percentage, up or down...
...vote has elected those responsible," says Alan Raby, an official with the program. Efforts like these, moreover, are being helped no end by the Jackson candidacy. "You've never had a Presidential candidate who has put this kind of emphasis on registration," says Madison, who works for the NAACP. "He's forcing a lot of politicians to do registration just to compete with...