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...largest get-out-the-vote efforts in recent history. Not since the succession of marches in the South that prompted the voting Rights Act of 1965 has there been such avid interest in voter registration. While traditional groups like the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and the League of Women Voters remain on the scene, the past three years have seen a proliferation of new groups and strategies-from both ends of the political spectrum-hoping to affect the 1984 election by registering voters...
...Boston, Channel 7 will devote eight hours to a program entitled, "Since JFK: The Last Twenty Years." During one of its four segments, entertainment critic Rex Reed and others will for some reason review the arts over the past 20 years. During another, former congresswoman Bella Abzug and NAACP leader Benjamin Hooks will participate in a "talk about social issues." And in the final segment, Betty Friedan, Jimmy Breslin and Michael Debakey will "explore feminism and the sexual revolution." Channel 7 sees the Kennedy assassination not only as a tragic event, but also as an unprecedented watershed in the 20th...
Jean E. Fairfax of the NAACP Legal Defense and Education fund, added that "Black women must combat racism as well as sexism." She described her life as "one of fighting" and spoke of her grandmother's march with the first suffragettes and of her mother, one of the first Black graduates of the University of Kansas...
...more Black candidacies for elected office and an assist to the death knell of Black voter apathy constitute important spinoffs from a Jesse Jackson presidential candidacy, thoroughly justifying it. These benefits over-shadow the concern of Jackson's detractors among Afro-American leaders like Benjamin Hooks of the NAACP and the National Urban League's John Jacob, among others, that, in Jacob's words--"the Black [presidential] candidate could very well turn out to be a spoiler--allowing... less desirable candidates to win primaries and perhaps even the nomination...
Citing Kenyatta's letter, Dean of the Law School James A. Vorenberg '49 criticizes the boycotters, calling their protest a reverse-racist personal attack on the white teacher of the class. Jack Greenberg, Director General of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund Columnists around the country echo this analysis...