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...LYDIA SPOTTSWOOD (D) District...
...like bringing people into a religion and teaching them new rituals. Will they be able to relate?"MORTON J. HORWITZ *City College of New York '59, Harvard Ph.D. (Political Science) '64, Harvard Law '67 *Warren Professor of Law, specialist in American Legal History *Clerk, U.S. Court of Appeals Justice Spottswood W. Robinson...
...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...