Word: protesters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...boycott started as a spectacular protest against the arrest (TIME, Jan. 16) of Mrs. Rosa Parks, a Negro seamstress, for refusing to move from the white section of a bus. It ended soon after U.S. District Court Clerk Robert Dodson received official notice that the Supreme Court had refused a rehearing on its earlier ruling against bus segregation in Montgomery. That afternoon Police Chief G. J. Ruppenthal held a closed meeting of his 159 officers, quietly told them that desegregation would begin immediately. That night the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., the levelheaded boycott leader, told his fellow Negroes...
...Come Around." The Central Council decided to call a 48-hour protest strike. There was only one way the council could notify the scores of widely separated factory councils, without also tipping off the police: by radio. There were no longer freedom radio transmitters in Hungary, but the Central Council left, in a place where it knew members of the foreign press corps would pick it up, a resolution calling for a general strike. Then it went into hiding, trusting that the foreign correspondents would get the story out, and that Radio Free Europe, the Voice of America...
Though four Ankara professors resigned in protest and students walked out on a one-day strike, the government remained adamant. Police rounded up 300 students for questioning, also began badgering students and professors at Istanbul University. Finally, last week the government announced that it would push through laws virtually abolishing the powers of the university senates and thus bring the universities under complete government control. The case of Dean Feyzioglu had proved to be something of a milestone: it marked the government's determination to end academic freedom in Turkey...
...half somersault with such consummate grace that his detractors could only hold him down to a high 19.76 points. Then Capilla soared into an equally spectacular double-twisting forward one-and-a-half and scored enough to win the championship by .03 of a point. A protest from U.S. Diving Coach Karl Michael did not change the result...
...thus so repugnant to some high-caste Hindus that his shadow was considered polluting), Dr. Ambedkar warred with Gandhi over the Mahatma's gradualism in righting caste discrimination, entered Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru's Cabinet as Minister of Law in 1947, resigned four years later in protest over delay in anti-caste legislation. Two months ago Hindu Ambedkar renounced his caste-perpetuating religion, claimed it stood for "inequality and oppression," led 300,000 followers in a mass conversion to Buddhism...