Word: sit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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JULIAN BOND has proved himself capable of overcoming the most formidable political opposition in dramatizing the political problems peculiar to the South--from sit-ins in Atlanta to seating at the national Democratic Convention. It is not surprising that people concerned with a "new politics," like those at Babson, will increasingly urge him toward a role in national politics. One development which may reconcile the dilemma between a national audience and a more narrowly southern one for Bond is the probability that Atlanta, through state reapportionment in 1970, will emerge as a predominantly black congressional constituency. Julian Bond would obviously...
...many observers' minds the Moses sit-in didn't warrant such a stern response. The reasons behind Heynes' apparent over-reaction become understandable only in the context of the underlying forces acting upon...
...then, and one couldn't help but be struck by his overwhelming determination. He told a spellbound audience of 200, "We are going to be the fastest growing commercial bank in New England and everybody is going to help. If you don't help, someday you're going to sit back and say, 'I should have listened to that guy.' The time has come for people to get together. Because if you don't, you're going to be standing by yourself in the middle of nothing...
...sit-inner, who would not reveal his name, said he was stationed outside M-102 "to remember...
...effect, an ordinary man forced to stand on the sidelines and cheer bitterly. "I fought because I understood, and could not bear to understand, that it was my destiny-unlike that of my father, whose fate it was to hear the roar of the crowd-to sit in the stands with most men and acclaim others. It was my fate, my destiny...