Word: protesters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Aroused, Kenny appeared on television to protest that his name was being blackened like that of "Archbishop Stepinac in Czechoslovakia" (the mayor presumably meant Yugoslavia). But the words were hardly out of his mouth before Richard McGrath of the John W. McGrath Stevedoring Co. testified that his firm had agreed to pay Kenny's son-in-law 50% of all profits on one pier to get the use of certain other Jersey City piers-though, as things turned out, the deal fell through, and they paid only $1,000 for good will...
...talked of the "frustration of those who had approached the threshold of equality." Their greatest protest, he stated, "is against the stigma of inferiority...
...Premier Malan's Nationalist dominated Parliament passed an act which would similarly reduce the right of one million coloreds from equal suffrage in Cape province, where they are bunched, to apearate voting for a small number of representative. There was no two thirds majority. An immediate howl of protest was bolstered by a supreme Court ruling that the act was unconstitutional...
When Drum published its illustrated expose (see cut), it touched off a roar of protest round the world. The British government sent a special investigator, and the respected South African Institute of Race Relations confirmed Drum's charges with its own survey. The protests forced the reluctant government to make some reforms. Drum dug up other similar stories such as a series on wealthy wine farmers who paid their non-white laborers partly in wine, thus kept them in a state of uncomplaining drunkenness. It followed up with articles on education, child care, home building and hygiene...
...whites was up to any good. Drum is still occasionally criticized by readers. Once when it charged that some witch doctors were encouraging tribal ritual murder, the editors had to placate a delegation of seven witch doctors who went to Drum's editorial office in full raiment to protest strongly the "slur on a noble profession...