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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...
...contrast between the two schools was clear, but even if Shaw had been just as good a school as Sousa, the parents of Spottswood Boiling and his friends would not have been satisfied. They were attacking something deeper than disparity of facilities. Their target was the principle of segregation. Said Spottswood's widowed mother, Mrs. Sarah Boiling, a $57.60-3-week bookbinder for the Federal Government's General Services Administration: "I think that to know how to deal with all people you've got to start as a child in school. In school you learn...
...Cause. The issue that brought the name of Spottswood Boiling before the U.S. Supreme Court is in no sense new. Where and how the Negro should be educated has been in dispute in the U.S. ever since Thomas Jefferson wrote that "all men are created equal." Before the Civil War, teaching a slave to read was a crime punishable by imprisonment in some Southern states. But after the war, there was a crusade to raise the freed slave's status. It was led by two white men: Thaddeus Stevens of Pennsylvania and Charles Sumner of Massachusetts...