Word: parren
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Dates: during 1971-1971
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Representative Parren Mitchell of Maryland concluded that "racism in the military is so deep, so wide and so effective that we can't possibly cope with it." Frank Render, a black former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Equal Opportunity, observed that in the Defense Department "one must necessarily plow through layers of bureaucracy, but even when that was done, too often bigotry and basic racism thwarted our attempts to help those who are oppressed." Render complained that at the Pentagon he was "treated like a 21-star general." At one point, Mrs. Chisholm was so moved...
...black leaders, those who spend their time in querulous complaint and constant recrimination against the rest of society." Agnew overlooked the obvious fact that these African rulers after all run their own countries; they could hardly be expected to engage in "querulous complaint" about their own regimes. Maryland Democrat Parren Mitchell, a member of the black congressional caucus, wondered if Agnew was suggesting that black Americans should fight racism in the U.S. in the manner of Jomo Kenyatta, who was convicted of leading the bloody Mau Mau uprisings in Kenya before independence...
...three freshman Congressmen, Representatives Parren J. Mitchell (D-Md.). Bella S. Abzug (D-N. Y.), and Ronald V. Dellums (D-Calif.) asked Secretary of the Army Stanley T. Resor to investigate charges that Font is being harassed because of his antiwar activities and the housing report that he compiled...
...groups, were forwarded to places where the thieves thought they would do the most good-or harm, as it were, to the FBI. Among the recipients: liberal Columnist Tom Wicker of the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, South Dakota Senator George McGovern and Congressman Parren Mitchell, a black Democrat from Maryland...
...Resist" - a national peace organization in Cambridge including among its members Noam Chomsky of M. I. T. - which subsequently gave the papers to the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, the CRIMSON and to Senator George S. McGovern (D-S.D.) and Rep. Parren J. Mitchell...