Word: organiza
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...says, "there didn't seem to be any way short of going to college and joining in a riot." In Northern California, Berkeley emerged as the biggest center of protest; however, groups other than the familiar hot-eyed types long associated with campus unrest became involved this time. An organiza tional meeting last week on campus turned out a preponderance of "dormies" and "Greeks" not normally on the side of activism. Late last month the Berkeley city council, usually bitterly opposed to student-led causes, voted 5 to 1 to back M-day in principle...
According to McGinniss, the studio panel was carefully preselected. "First, this meant a Negro," he writes. "One Negro. Not two. Two would be offensive to whites. Two would be trying too hard." The audience was "recruited from the local Republican organiza tions," and cued for applause. Ailes also stage-managed Nixon's appearance...
...York's United Federation of Teachers, con tends that it would create "chaos" through conflict between districts and confusion in contract negotiations; if the plan is approved, he predicts that teacher unrest would lead to "thou sands" of resignations. Most Puerto Rican and Negro civil rights organiza tions, however, strongly endorse the Bundy proposal in the hope that local control of schools will lead to better education for their children - and they now give such improvement a much higher priority than enforced integration by bussing pupils around town...
...King said that he regretted the NAACP had decided to pull out the civil rights coalition which the Mississippi Freedom . He added that SCLC would part of COFO, but indicated he favor restructuring the organiza...
...organized community stores to sell low-cost food to the poor, set up a radio network that beams reading les sons and farming instructions to remote villages. In Mexico (where since 1926 it has been illegal for priests to walk around in cassocks) and in Venezuela, churchmen have sponsored organiza tions of idealistic volunteers who, in Peace Corps fashion, seek to help the poor in slums and backlands...