Word: protesters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...King, the "vital liaison between Negroes and whites was totally lacking. There was not even a ministerial alliance to bring white and colored clergymen together. This is important. If there had been some communication between the races, we might have got some help from the responsible whites, and our protest might not have been necessary...
Frustrated at every turn, the Negroes had long since fallen to quarreling among themselves in bitter factionalism. "If," says King, "you had asked me the day before our protest began whether any action could or would have been taken by the Negroes, I'd have said no. Then, all of a sudden, unity developed...
...boycott. The original demands were mild: 1) Negroes would still be seated from the rear and whites from the front, but on a first-come-first-served basis; 2) Negroes would get courteous treatment; 3) Negro drivers would be employed for routes through predominantly Negro areas. To direct their protest, the Negro ministers decided to form the Montgomery Improvement Association. And for president they elected the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., a relative newcomer whose ability was evident and whose newness placed him above the old feuds. That night, at a hastily called mass meeting, more than 5,000 Negroes...
...this lone stand spawned the prospect of canceled U.S. aid and more austerity at home, Israel was in a state of patriotic excitement unparalleled since Israel's independence was proclaimed in 1948. In Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and Haifa, Israelis paraded by the thousands through the streets in mass protest "against the return of the Egyptian murderers to Gaza." At Nahal Oz, the Israeli settlement across from Egypt's old gun positions in the Gaza Strip (see box), delegates from 14 frontier communities passed a resolution against the "strangulation policy of the U.N. majority." For Orthodox Jews who could...
...Ciardi's review reached the Saturday Review, Editor Norman Cousins blue-penciled little but the title (changing "The Slovenly Unicorn" to "A Close Look at the Unicorn"), and sent it off to the printers. Thus was produced, in the words of Editor Cousins, "the biggest storm of reader protest in [our] 33-year history...