Word: recruitable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last year when he instigated a rent strike in Harlem. Gray sent out a call for "100 skilled black revolutionaries who are ready to die. There is only one thing that can correct the situation and that's guerrilla warfare!" He exhorted "revolutionaries" to establish platoons and to recruit 100 men apiece. "This city can be changed by 50,000 well-organized Negroes. They can determine what will happen in New York City!" A Black Nationalist named Edward Mills Davis issued a plea that "all you black people that have been in the armed services and know anything about...
...Council of Federated Organizations has begun a drive to recruit 100 more volunteers to teach a three-week session in Mississippi Freedom Schools, beginning Aug. 2. The new recruits will work in communities now without Freedom Schools...
...review editors and Ivy League products. Under a pioneering legal-intern program, the fund is training and will subsidize civil rights lawyers to fill an urgent need: fulltime practice in the South. The entire state of Mississippi, for example, has at present only four Negro lawyers. One promising recruit: Julius L. Chambers, son of an auto mechanic and first Negro to edit the North Carolina Law Review...
...recruit soon learns that A.T.&T. insists on making one man -any man-ultimately responsible for every single project, however big or small, and that he stands to take the blame if that project sours. As soon as he joins the organization, each candidate is tossed into the decision-making maelstrom, perhaps as chief of a smalltown office or traffic department, where...
...held throughout Japan on any night of the week, members discuss their spiritual progress and prepare for their highest duty, which is shakubuku (literally, break and subdue), or gaining converts. Until some years ago shakubuku was accomplished by relays of devotees chanting sutras round the clock in a prospective recruit's home and literally wearing him down. In other cases, members burned a family's Shinto altar, or prevented a doctor from treating a sick devotee on grounds that faith alone would cure him. Because of public protest, Soka Gakkai eased off on such tactics, but even today...