Word: segregationism
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More than 2000 protestors soggy from a steady downpour clustered outside the double fence separating them from the field, chanting, "Freedom yes, apartheid no!" to demonstrate their opposition to South Africa's policies of racial segregation. About 300 fans watched the game from the stands inside the fence.
The death of Wilkins and the resignation of Jordan came at a time of increasing demoralization and frustration within the civil rights movement. That once mighty coalition of black and white organizations captured the nation's conscience and won an end to segregation in public accommodations, besides sweeping legal...
When he died last week in New York City at 80, Wilkins had been out of the public eye since his retirement from the N.A.A.C.P. in 1977. Overcome in his last years by age and ill health, he nonetheless remained a revered figure among blacks and whites alike. Wilkins was...
Articulate, painstaking in his research, Wilkins mastered powerful arguments for unpopular positions and, more difficult, could translate them into public support. An adviser to Presidents, he led the fight to desegregate the armed forces, marched long before demonstrations were legal, and in 1963 initiated one of the first major lunch...
Helms' transcripts are packed with hyperbole and meanspiritedness. Yet, perhaps because this was television, he never crossed the line into ugliness or outright racism?as some Tobacco Network listeners seem to remember he did in his early radio talks (of which no transcripts are known to exist). "There is no...