Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...outraged by the alliance which Socialist Party Leader Pietro Nenni had just made with the Communists. Sadly, Matteotti charged Nenni with spreading "fear and terrorism" in the party. Then, amidst cries of "degenerate son," he stalked out to help organize a splinter group, which eventually became the anti-Communist Social Democratic Party...
When Washington definitely repudiated "social equality," he also accepted the prevailing belief of most Americans, North and South. He brought the Atlanta crowd to its feet with wild cheering when he dramatically said: "In all things that are purely social, we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to human progress." The endorsement by a Negro of social inequality gave it a force that it might not otherwise have had. The year after his speech the United States Supreme Court, following the precedent of several lower federal courts and rulings...
...principal reasons for opposition to the Supreme Court decision of May 17, 1954 and May 31, 1955 that reversed the Plessy doctrine is the fear that they might lead to social equality. While some Negroes, especially in the South, state that they are opposed to social equality because of danger of reprisals if they advocate it, a number are still convinced that Washington was right...
...following year at Harpers Ferry drafted resolutions which proclaimed, among other things: "We will not be satisfied to take one jot or tittle less than our full manhood rights. We claim for ourselves every single right that belongs to a free-born American, political, civil and social; and until we get these rights we will never cease to protest and to assail the ears of America...
Furry follows Leon J. Kamin '48, former research assistant in Social Relations, as the second Harvard man to be freed from contempt of Congress charges. Kamin was acquitted by Judge Bailey Aldrich '28 in January...