Word: picketer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nonetheless, Mormon leaders have been slow to speak up in favor of civil rights. Recently, Negro leaders in Salt Lake City threatened to picket the Mormons' 133rd semiannual conference unless church leaders broke silence and formally denounced segregation. N.A.A.C.P. leaders finally heard what they had been waiting for last week in an address by Hugh D. Brown, newly chosen First Counselor to David O. McKay, 90, who is the Mormons' First President, Prophet, Seer, Revelator and Trustee-in-Trust. "We would like it to be known," said Brown, "that there is in this church no doctrine, belief...
...Journal and the News. There were also other growing pains. The International Typographical Union tried to organize Smyth's pitifully small stable of printers. But Smyth put his back up, imported substitutes from as far off as Texas, and after two years the I.T.U. furled its last picket sign and slunk away, its strike broken...
Officials planning the visit predicted yesterday that it will be without incident, although as many as 200 students from Harvard, Radcliffe, Brandeis, B.U., and M.I.T. are expected to picket her speech...
John Ehrenreich '64, secretary of Toosin, said yesterday that the purpose of the picket demonstration outside Rindge Tech is not to protest Mme. Nhu's right to speak, but to criticize United States policy in Vietnam. Tocsin last week adopted a resolution calling for a cease fire in the embattled Asian country, followed by the withdrawal of all American troops in Vietnam and internationally supervised elections in the country...
Hundreds of clergymen took part in the August civil rights march on Washington, including two Roman Catholic archbishops, at least ten Episcopal bishops, about 50 rabbis. So far in 1963, more than 200 clergymen have been arrested for taking part in picket lines and demonstrations, including the nation's No. 1 Presbyterian, the Rev. Eugene Carson Blake, in Maryland...