Word: protestation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...protest against the expulsion of Ishmael P. Flory from Fisk University in Nashville. Tennesse, the Harvard Chapter of the N. S. L. sent the following telegram last night...
...PROTEST EXPULSION OF I. P. FLORY FOR ACTION AGAINST JIM CROWISM WHEN FISK STUDENTS WERE INVOLVED BY THE UNIVERSITY ADMINISTRATION IN SINGING ENGAGEMENT AT LOEW JIM CROW THEATER NASHVILLE STOP WE DEMAND YOUR SUPPORT IN FIGHT FOR ACADEMIC FREEDOM AND AGAINST RACIAL DISCRIMINATION BY HIS IMMEDIATE AND UNCONDITIONAL REINSTATEMENT...
Ishmael P. Flory, a member of the N. S. L. at Fisk University, was dismissed for having written an article against jim-crowism in a Baltimore negro newspaper. The protest was occasioned by the fact that the Fisk Singers had accepted an engagement in this jim-crow theater which discriminates against negro students...
Colonel Lindberg, the man who knows more about mail flying than anybody else in America, is here conferring with the Secretary of War and will see the President. If the Administration will forget Colonel Lnidbergh's public protest and devote itself now to straightening out the whole mess, there is nobody who can be of more help than the Colonel. He is an army reserve officer. If the War Department authorized him to organize the service and arrange for the letting of contracts for temporary service with the existing companies, until such time as the legistlation could be perfected...
...items, not on missions alone. ... In some cases the bishops have failed to send their share. What isn't held back by the priest is kept by the bishop. The deep shame of keeping the money lies in the fact that there is no one to protest, to the hurt of men and women who trust us out in the far corners of the world...