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Rocks for N.A.A.C.P. The adverse reaction is all too visible. In a Boston St. Patrick's Day parade, an N.A.A.C.P. float bearing the slogan, FROM THE FIGHT FOR IRISH FREEDOM TO THE FIGHT FOR U.S. EQUALITY, was pelted with rocks, eggs, beer cans and vegetables. When Roman Catholic pastors in Michigan read from their pulpits a pro-civil rights statement, members of a Catholic Laymen's League stood outside the doors of 52 churches, passed out some 100,000 leaflets denouncing the civil rights bill...
Alabama's Governor George Wallace flew into Indianapolis last week in a state-owned Lockheed Lodestar deco rated with a Confederate flag and the slogan STAND UP FOR AMERICA. He had, he said, come to run against Democratic Governor Matthew Welsh "because I want to let the people have an effective way of opposing some of the trends going on in Washington." For Welsh, who is a favorite-son stand-in for President Johnson in Indiana's May 5th presidential primary, Wallace had only kind words. "I have the highest regard for Governor Welsh," he allowed...
Today it is clear that the vote is only the beginning. SNCC's slogan is "One man, one vote," but many members speak of "One man, one job." In Lewis's words, "...There must be some basic change in our economic and political stucture... The masses must rise up to bring the changes about...
...seem much of a buy. The Volkischer Beo-bachter (People's Observer), was a slender Munich biweekly with barely 7,000 subscribers and not a pfennig in the till. Its new publisher, one Adolf Hitler, made it a daily and rang up a blustering new masthead slogan: "Combat Organ of the National Socialist Movement of Germany...
...defense lines Goulart had set up outside Rio and took over the city behind them. Within the city, Goulart's archenemy, Carlos Lacerda, had manned the governor's palace with 500 state troopers and barricaded it with 20 city garbage trucks still bearing an anti-litter slogan: "HELP US. WE ARE CLEANING UP THE CITY." When the tide turned against Jango, Lacerda went on television to proclaim emotionally, "God has taken pity on the people. God is good...