Word: spottswood
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that they can retain the group's established ways and still keep it vital and strong. They feel no need to apologize. WE'RE DOIN' OUR THING, said the orange-and-black buttons worn by many of the 2,000 delegates. To A.M.E. Zion Bishop Stephen Spottswood, 72, N.A.A.C.P. board chairman, "our thing" meant the full sweep of Negro-American progress in this century. "What has been achieved, we have achieved it," he declared. "What remains to be done, we shall...
...Ultimatum. "My God," said the N.A.A.C.P.'s assistant executive director, John Morsell, after he read the article. "Now they'll be able to say that the N.A.A.C.P. is jumping on the court." Bishop Stephen Spottswood, N.A.A.C.P. board chairman, denounced "historical inaccuracies" in the piece without specifying his objections, and one day after the article appeared, the board discharged Steel without summoning either him or Counsel Carter for an explanation...
...Appointed Law School Deans Erwin N. Griswold of Harvard and Spottswood Robinson III of Washington's Negro Howard University to the Civil Rights Commission...