Word: randolph
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Negroes threatening to stage a mass demonstration against the papers, the whites decided that they had had their fill of Glass. To every household in Lynchburg went an open letter signed by 71 leading white citizens, including the presidents of the Chamber of Commerce, Lynchburg College and Randolph-Macon Woman's College...
...went smoothly at a rehearsal for the debutantes' benefit fashion show in London, until Arabella Churchill, 17, Randolph's daughter, had to parade onto the runway wearing a silk gown split up the back to reveal its matching pants. "I do not want to show my bottom," snapped Winnie's granddaughter as photographers began shooting the view from the stern. Later, things got even worse when the prankish Duke of Bedford, the show's announcer, peeled off the detachable lower swath of a mink coat Arabella was modeling, leaving her in a sort of mini...
Rustin's central concern in the civil rights movement is now somewhat more subdued. As the movement shifts from "protest to politics," he says, "it behooves Negroes to cultivate allies in the ranks of liberals and labor." The massive Freedom Budget of the A. Phillip Randolph Institute, of which Rustin is presently Executive Director, is predicated upon this thesis...
Rustin replied, "It was inevitable that Booker T. Washington -- a man whose accomplishments are too often underrated -- be succeeded by Du Bois, and Du Bois by A. Phillip Randolph. So today, when Randolph says to me, 'Bayard, I just don't understand what these kids are saying today. I don't understand them. Do you?' I tell him, 'No, Phillip. But don't worry about it. You didn't understand Washington or Du Bois, and they didn't understand...
Rustin is Executive Director of the Faculty members, including Theodore Randolph Institute...