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Guerrilla Warfare. Those lawyers who condone civil disobedience do so on very narrow grounds. Civil disobedience is "just" only when all legal redress has been closed-a position taken last week by the Lutheran Church in America at its biennial convention in Pittsburgh. "If and when the means of legal recourse have been exhausted or have been demonstrably inadequate," resolved the church, "Christians may then choose to serve the cause of racial justice by disobeying a law that clearly involves the violation of their obligations as Christians...
What is happening, though, is that the revolutionaries are beginning to see demonstrations and public protest as ends in themselves. Epps admits that "confrontation of the black man with the white man" often becomes more important than the redress of a particular grievance. More explosive demonstrations will be needed to maintain the militancy of the revolutionaries. And when the stalled cars on the Long Island highways start backing up, the Negro cause will lose considerable support. It is here that Chasan's plea for responsible leadership is immediately relevant...
Simple Goals. Section by section, Humphrey went through the bill's eleven titles, explaining each and giving examples of grievances that the bill was designed to redress. In discussing the protection of Negro voting rights, Humphrey noted that in many Southern states, would-be Negro voters are rejected, while even the most illiterate whites are generally allowed to register. He told the story of one white Alabaman who, when confronted with the voter-registration-test question, "Will you give aid and comfort to the enemies of the U.S. or the government of Alabama?", wrote in reply: "If hurt would...
...government of another done within its own territory." Since then, the Supreme Court has consistently held that if a person protected by U.S. law has a grievance against a foreign government, it is up to the Executive and Legislative branches, riot the' Judiciary, to help him secure redress...
...than they had achieved in any year since the end of the Civil War. A speedup in school integration in the South brought to 1,141 the number of desegregated school districts. In the North, city after city re-examined de facto school segregation and set up plans to redress the balance. In 300 cities in the South, public facilities-from swimming pools to restaurants-were integrated, and in scores of cities across the nation, leaders established biracial committees as a start toward resolving local inequities...