Word: negroness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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DICKINSON COLLEGE Jay Saunders Redding, D.Lit., author. American life and letters have been enriched by your haunting theme of being Negro in America. You have revealed whites and blacks to each other as brothers...
Although 14 American states-and most Western nations-have substantially abolished the death penalty, the Supreme Court has thus far declined to rule on its constitutionality. Last fall the court agreed to review the conviction of William Maxwell, 30, an Arkansas Negro sentenced to death in 1962 for the rape of a white woman. But the case covered only the procedures by which capital punishment is imposed; it excluded the key puzzle of whether capital punishment violates the Eighth Amendment guarantee against "cruel and unusual punishment." Last week the court avoided even the questions it had earlier agreed to answer...
...rights for the last 15 years. She was instrumental in the revitalization of the Y. W. C. A. as a member of its national board, and is currently a member of the President's Advisory Council on the Status of Women and President of the National Council of Negro Women, a confederation of 25 Negro Women's organizations...
...February of 1960 four students from a Negro college in North Carolina sat-in at a local restaurant to protest its policy of racial discrimination. Their act of protest spread first to other Negro colleges, and then grew rapidly into a movement as black college students became during the next four years the vanguard of an intensive struggle for civil right in the South...
This group attitude had changed considerably by the fall of 1967. The new pulse and direction of the Black Movement had furnished the impetus for the formation of black student groups on white campuses, and the concurrent growth of militant student groups at Negro colleges. Black students, now highly politicized, readily accepted the efficacy of radical action as a means of winning their demands...