Word: protesters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Estis said the protest will call attention to the fact that major funding for portions of the new facility came from corporations and individuals substantially involved in South Africa. Estis specifically cited the Charles Englelhard Public Affairs Library, honoring the gift of $1 million from the Charles Engehard Foundation...
...more than a generation, Strom Thurmond has been a legend in South Carolina. As Governor in 1948, he indignantly walked out of the Democratic National Convention to protest the civil rights plank in the party platform and ran for President as a Dixiecrat. In the Senate he became the foremost filibusterer against civil rights legislation, declaring that there would never be enough laws on the books or troops in the Army to force the South to integrate. In 1964 he bolted the Democrats for good, joined the Republican Party, and later was part of Richard Nixon's Southern strategy...
...Cullman, 30 miles away, was not much of an improvement. Only about 1% of its 14,200 people are black, so it was no surprise that the nine men and three women selected for the jury were all white. On the eve of the trial, Hines supporters began a protest march from Decatur to Cullman. They were stopped at the Cullman town line by police and jeering Klansmen. Twenty-three blacks were arrested...
...gradually?beginning to bring Hispanics together. In Los Angeles, Latin neighborhood associations have forced city authorities to provide better services, and pressured the state government to investigate auto insurers on charges of setting unreasonable rates. In Texas, Hispanics have organized civil rights marches reminiscent of the '60s, often to protest police brutality...
...Bernie Carbo--who was also the best pinch-hitter on the bench--to Cleveland. The Red Sox got nothing but money in exchange for Bernie Carbo, the co-spaceman who was known as one of the best pinch-hitters in baseball. Lee quit the team for three days in protest. "It's time we started talking about the earth," he said upon returning...