Word: progressives
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Fellowship for Social Justice of the American Unitarian Association, meeting in Boston, awarded its Holmes Weatherly Award for contributions to social progress to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., Baptist minister and leader of the Negro bus boycott in Montgomery...
Through the stories ran common themes; e.g., the Northern Negro is most heavily hit by private-housing barriers imposing geographical segregation that often makes a farce of the North's free dom from segregation in the schools. They also told a story of progress, pointed out that the weight of Northern opinion and law supports the Negro's fight for first-class citizenship-in contrast with the Deep South's defiance of the U.S. Supreme Court's integration decision. Wrote the Chicago Tribune's Reporter Ottley: "There are Negroes who complain that progress...
Another half dozen votes from Colorado, Nevada and Washington brought his total close to 150. The count was far short of the 687 votes that will nominate a Democratic candidate. But in one week Campaigner Harriman had made remarkable progress...
Equally pressing was the need to hold skilled technicians in the Navy, and here, progress has its own price. Explains an enlisted missileman at Norfolk: "This new equipment is getting so complicated that the makers find a junction area and slap a little black box over it. No one but the civilian technical representative can monkey with this little black box. The Navy man loses contact with his equipment. He begins to think about getting out so he can become a tech rep and work with the little black box himself...
Neither, many a Parisian agreed, had Paris itself, not even in the dark days when Adolf Hitler came to town as a conqueror. While the Yugoslav dictator and his official hosts swept freely along cleared boulevards in the city, the plain citizens of Paris found their own progress blocked at every turn. Never smooth flowing, the city's traffic became a nightmare of confusion as main thoroughfares were blocked off for hours at a time...