Word: picketer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Gartner called the picket "an enormous success." The national goal of the demonstration was to inform the public about Howard Johnson discrimination and get added support for CORE's position...
Alan Gartner, chairman of the Boston chapter of the Committee on Racial Equality, claimed that as a direct result of Saturday's picket, Howard Johnson's national office has asked for a preliminary meeting to consider negotiating desegregation of the chain's restaurants in North and South Carolina, Virginia, and Alabama...
...Patience & Faith." Last year "Father Bob" won Jersey City's annual Community Brotherhood Award, but not all of his fellow Christians appreciate his work. An outspoken enemy of civic apathy and churchly indifference to evil, he has preached sermons on political responsibility, walked on picket lines to protest racial segregation in public housing. For such stands, Castle has received threatening telephone calls, and some of his older parishioners have complained to his bishop...
...came Kennedy, accompanied by Jackie in a seafoam green evening gown by Oleg Cassini. In the reception line, Chemist Linus Pauling, who had spent the day in a ban-the-bomb picket line outside, got special attention. "Glad to see you expressing your opinions so strongly," said Kennedy heartily. And Jackie twitted him with "Why do you do that? Every time Caroline sees people outside with signs, she says, 'What has Daddy done now?'" In a dinner toast, the President observed: "I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been...
...Gaillot. The wife of a factory clerk and the head of a small racist outfit called Save Our Nation, Inc., she has two sons attending a Catholic high school, and holds an unshakable conviction that racial integration is a sin against God. She helped set up the picket lines around Rummel's residence, issued a flurry of mimeographed essays arguing that segre gation is authorized in the Bible. One scriptural text she cited was Genesis 21, which describes how Sara asks Abraham to cast out from his house the Egyptian concubine Hagar, whose son "shall not be heir with...