Word: ralph
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...members of the white Citizens Councils are willing to do the same?" The tradition of civil disobedience in our country is an old one. When Henry Thoreau refused to pay taxes that were being used to finance a war that he regarded as unjust, he was imprisoned. When Ralph Waldo Emerson visited him, he said, "Henry, why are you here?" And Thoreau replied, "Waldo, why are you not here...
Gibes & Guards. The four-day, 54-mile march from Selma to Montgomery had itself been an experience, not an excitement. It started on the after noon of Sunday, March 21, with some 3,400 marchers led by two Nobel Peace prizewinners-the Rev. Martin Luther King and Ralph Bunche, now U.N. Under Secretary for Special Political Affairs. In the procession, whites and Negroes, clergymen and beatniks, old and young, walked side by side. There was a blind man from Atlanta on the arm of his 64-year-old mother. There was a one-legged man from Michigan swinging along...
...Alabamians, had been appointed. But now George Wallace reneged. An aide met the petitioners, blandly told them, "The capitol is closed today." Then Wallace went on television and, with his unerring instinct for impropriety, denounced the civil rights march as "prostitution of lawful process." Said he: "I see that Ralph Bunche, the United Nations man, was here. He's supposed to be defending us against Communists, but today he was consorting with known Communists...
...RALPH B. ROVEGNO...
...Ralph Bunche, Undersecretary of the United Nations, said his legs were very sore from walking. But he told the gathering, "nothing I have been associated with in my entire life gives me more satisfaction than this movement...