Word: picketings
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...Angela was aware of and involved in the civil rights movement. "When I was 12," she says, "I helped organize interracial study groups...but they were busted up by the police." As a teen-ager she worked for SNCC in the voter registration campaigns and on the picket lines during the long struggle in Birmingham...
Hobson, though, takes greater pride in his successful campaign to change downtown racial practices. "When I started out with picket lines in 1960," he told TIME Correspondent Paul Hathaway, "a black clerk was as rare as a white crow. Now they are all over the place." He pressured such giants as Safeway Stores and A&P into hiring blacks for the first time. When one leading auto dealer hired a black salesman, Hobson thanked the company by buying his first Ford there...
...International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, which represents cameramen, audio and lighting men and other technicians. But now the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists had ordered its members-who include newsmen and the casts of live programs such as soap operas-to honor the IBEW picket lines at CBS broadcast sites. Such stellar AFTRA members as Newsmen Roger Mudd, Dan Rather and Eric Sevareid had pledged "reluctant" compliance. Would lightning strike? Would a faceless CBS management man rocket to instant fame as substitute anchorman, as did the unsung Arnold Zenker, then manager of the CBS news programming, during...
Whatever happens, Arnold Zenker will not be available as a substitute newsman. His stint on CBS during the 1967 strike propelled him into the performing ranks as host of two local talk shows in Boston; an AFTRA member himself now, Zenker would have to honor the IBEW picket line...
...McGovern and Spiro Agnew), and threatening to obliterate election coverage. Fearing labor troubles at the worst of all possible times, Jean Westwood, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, asked CBS to keep away from any Democratic functions; several candidates also gave excellent imitations of persons badly frightened by a picket line. CBS got the message and canceled its "remote" pickups from some 20 locations. The network was thus forced to stay within a restricted area, leaning even more heavily upon the services of an oaken but somewhat weary Walter Cronkite. Despite this, when the early Nielsens came in, they showed...