Word: spingarn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...name of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Bandleader Benny Goodman presented the N.A.A.C.P.'s 44th annual Spingarn Award (for high achievement by an American Negro) to "an old and cherished friend." Added to such names as George Washington Carver, Marian Anderson, Richard Wright, Ralph Bunche and Jackie Robinson: the jazz world's Edward Kennedy ("Duke") Ellington...
...SPINGARN Washington...
CLAUDE E. SPINGARN...
Opposite the Pawn Shop. While eminent legal minds considered the great issue, Spottswood Thomas Boiling Jr., 14, sat with the all-Negro sophomore class in Washington's new Spingarn High School, quietly tending to his studies. Spottswood Boiling's name will go down in history with the segregation cases, for he is one of the plaintiffs. His case is a resume of the issues involved...
Walter C. Carrington '52 will give "A Letter to the President," by Arthur B. Spingarn and Lilly P. Wright. Theodore L. Gershuny '54 will give selections from George Bernard Shaw's "The Apple Cart," James M. Harkless '52 will present "The Speech of Herod," from W. H. Auden's "The Massacre of the Innocepts." Burton G. Malkiel '53 will give Cassius' speech to Brutus from Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar...