Word: personality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Cautious Feds. Among "feasible" reforms, Martin Luther King calls for a new U.S. law making it a federal crime to intimidate or murder any person "in pursuit of constitutional rights." He seeks Negro employment "on every level of law enforcement agencies." To "abolish lynch law from Dixie juries," he thinks federal officials ought "to select and constitute jury panels in state as well as federal cases...
...Live. To curb criminal racists, the Government has relied on two weak 1870 laws. Originally drafted to support Negro rights, one law (Title 18, Section 242) is the main U.S. weapon against police or any other officials guilty of violating anyone's constitutional rights. Section 242 forbids any person "acting under color of any law" to so deprive any U.S. "inhabitant" or to persecute him by reason of his being "an alien, or by reason of his race or color." But conviction requires proof that the defendant had "specific intent" to deny constitutional rights, and the maximum sentence...
...other law (Section 241) is the main U.S. weapon against anti-civil-rights violence by civilians. Originally designed to encourage Negro voting, that law provides a ten-year rap if "two or more persons conspire" to deprive any person of his federal rights. In 1951, however, an evenly divided (4-4) Supreme Court affirmed a lower-court ruling that Section 241 protects only a limited class of federal rights, such as interstate travel. As a result, the U.S. could not use it to enforce a citizen's Fourteenth Amendment rights of due process and equal protection...
Title One of the Universal Military Training and Service Act provides exemption for any person "who, by reason of religious training or belief, is conscientiously opposed to war in any form. Religious training and belief in this connection means an individual's belief in relation to a Supreme Being involving duties superior to those arising from any human relation, but does not include essentially political, sociological, or philosophical views or merely a personal moral code...
...Ireland who happened to be editor of the Irish Statesman. The family friend was A. E. (George Russell), poet and intimate of William Butler Yeats. He liked the poem, and sent the young poetess two guineas for it. "He said he was sure no one but an Irish person could have written it and he asked for more," Miss Travers said. She traveled to Ireland, and came to know A. E. and Yeats well...