Word: spottswood
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...morale that has recently plagued the association. A widespread criticism is that he stayed on too long and that under him the N.A.A.C.P. has acted too timidly. Wilkins' difficulties began with the deaths in 1974 of his two closest friends: N.A.A.C.P. Board Chairman Stephen Gill Spottswood and Assistant Director John A. Morsell, Wilkins' hand-picked successor. Wilkins' own health began to deteriorate following an emergency operation last March for the removal of a kidney stone...
...Died. Bishop Stephen G. Spottswood, 77, an N.A.A.C.P. official and spiritual leader of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church; of cancer; in Washington, D.C. Son of a Boston porter, Spottswood's lifelong commitment to nonviolent action began in the 1920s...
...Spottswood's low-key manner soon came under attack from angry young militants. In the heat of the civil rights struggle, his own anger grew. In 1969, he lashed out at the Nixon Administration as "anti-black" and in 1970 claimed that "killing black Americans has been the 20th century pastime of our police...
...addition to Bazelon and Wright, the court has three members who can be ranked as somewhat left of center: Carl McGowan, 62, who served as Adlai Stevenson's counsel while Stevenson was Governor of Illinois; Harold Leventhal, 58, onetime general counsel to the Democratic National Committee; and Spottswood W. Robinson III, 57, former dean of the Howard University Law School and the only black member of the court...
...manifesto has had other unintended results. The black church itself has split over Forman's tactics, which point inevitably toward black separatism. B-shop Stephen Spottswood of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church has attacked the manifesto, while the National Committee of Black Churchmen has served as a channel for funds to B.E.D.C. And indirectly, Forman gave the Jewish Defense League its push into prominence: the league's first widely publicized action was its unasked-for "protection" of a New York synagogue supposedly threatened by Forman-like black disruptions...