Word: protesters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Street suits. A swirl of exotic prophets, devious schemers and earnest advocates swarmed in from afar to urge their causes. Resplendent in a red tarboosh and black gown, the former Grand Mufti of Jerusalem materialized like a wraith from the past. There was a young Turkestani from Brooklyn to protest against the "tragic conditions of Moslems in the Soviet Union and China," a delegation from South Africa to urge condemnation of apartheid...
...Protestant protest . . . The biggest thing that happened that week was Easter, and to put a Roman Catholic on the cover of your magazine (which is carried all over the world) certainly sets the religion of Jesus Christ back pretty far ... At least you could have put a good Protestant missionary on your cover. We don't get enough publicity for the good...
...many ways the ten years following Reed's death proved a decade of insanity. Prosperity was the backdrop both for obsessions with baubles and scientific progress. It was a decade of protest and agitation: against God and for lipstick; against long skirts and for bobbed hair. Later years have called this the "Lost Generation." In spite of its aims, its main distinction seemed to be aimlessness. Its members tossed off old values and traditions, but they went no place. This was a class of revolutionaries without an excuse for a revolution...
Life during the later twenties helped to clarify his protest. He writes of his experience in 1927 as an instructor at Smith College: "This was the middle twenties, and the spirit of the period was handsomely embodied on the Smith campus. Among certain conspicuous members of the faculty a pattern of ideas and values was accepted and promulgated that seems to me now the very essence of the decade. They all subscribed to at least three articles of faith. They believed first that science would prove the salvation of humanity, and they had unlimited confidence in the ability...
...considerable difficulty enforcing its decision against Jim Crow schools. Of 1,000 Texans sampled, 45% said they favored maintaining segregation either by disobeying the law or finding a way to circumvent it. In other words, said the poll, any attempt at immediate integration will "stir up a storm of protest in Texas verging on public disrespect...