Word: negroness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Superficially, there is ample evidence of N.A.A.C.P. strength. While most radical Negro organizations count their membership in the hundreds, the N.A.A.C.P. has 450,673 dues payers-an increase of 5% in a year. Its annual income is $3.3 million. Below the surface, however, there are signs of weakness. Membership has slipped by 16% from its 1963 peak, and many remaining members are inactive. While the convention saw no serious attempts by young militants to take over, the reason was that many young people had already quit. To stop such attrition, the N.A.A.C.P. needs more help from white America. The organization...
...whites together in a proximity unusual for Port Neches; but the two races sometimes differ on what they see. One white farmer, who claims that he has taken some 25 photographs showing images of "the Christ Child, the Virgin Mary, the Three Wise Men, and angels," scoffed at Negro viewers. "These niggers come away saying they've seen Martin Luther King, Bobby Kennedy and J.F.K. Boy, those people sure have an imagination...
...common complaint among many Negroes-and more than a few whites -is that U.S. justice is all too often far from colorblind. Three recent criminal cases, all involving youthful Negro defendants and all leading to harsh sentences, have prompted black and white citizens alike to protest the severity of the courts...
...Harrisburg, Pa., three Negro teenagers pleaded guilty to the charge of shooting a 64-year-old man to death during a bank robbery last December. Despite the guilty...
...committee that has been formed to aid the convicted teenagers argues that execution is unjustified in view of the offenders' youth and the fact that they had thrown themselves on the mercy of the court. The Rev. Frank Horton, a Negro minister who heads the committee, asks: "Would three white youths have received the same punishment...