Word: respectibility
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...complete integration on busses; it merely sought the right for Negroes to sit in white sections during crowded hours. The NAACP here operated at its best: its local members were acting not as pawns of what appears to many Southerners as a dangerous outside organization, but as respectable citizens of Montgomery. And for this attitude, and the quiet strength of the movement, the Negro in Montgomery gained new respect, as well as legal victory...
...this respect the National Scholarship Service and Fund for Negro Students has conducted a Southern project for the past two years. The objective was to encourage more of the best Negro students from Southern high schools to apply for admission to good interracial colleges in the North. During the two years 78 Negro high schools in the 45 largest southern cities were visited. 3,178 students, all in the top ten percent of their senior classes, then took a modified college entrance examination. Of these, 1,732 passed. And 578 applied for admission to an interracial college, with 523 being...
This is not to argue public power to the exclusion of private power. But private companies are frequently unable to utilize a dam site fully, and wasting the heritage of future generations in this respect is inexcusable. These federal projects pay for themselves through power revenues, and the experience of TVA and the Bonneville Power Administration shows that they stimulate the area's economy so it can pay a larger share of the nation's taxes...
Without disclosing the strength of China's armed forces, Defense Minister Marshal Peng Teh-huai announced that there were 2,700,000 fewer men under arms than in 1949. As a sop to the self-respect of the hitherto terrorized Chinese intellectuals, the leaders decreed that a party member, while obliged to carry out party decisions unconditionally, may now "reserve his opinion and submit it to a leading body if he disagrees." Surest indication of the regime's sense of achieved stability was the news that Red China is about to attempt a system of codified...
Never underestimate the power of bird lovers. Last week the management of Manhattan's 1,472-ft. Empire State Building announced that out of respect for migrating birds and the National Audubon Society, it has doused the building's stationary beacon, and will keep it doused until Nov. 1, when most of the feathered friends are safe in their winter resorts...