Word: stevenses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Two Men & a 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...
Stevens, a stony-faced, crippled son of a Vermont village shoemaker, was the crude but effective pleader for the Negro in the U.S. House of Representatives. Sumner, a master orator who succeeded Daniel Webster in the U.S. Senate, carried the Negro's banner there. They were the spiritual leaders...
Fighting for their cause with such vehemence, Sumner and Stevens pushed the 14th Amendment to the Constitution, passed in 1866, providing that "no state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens." They rammed through the reconstruction acts of 1867, which established military...
Books on Russia, Korea, Red China and Communism kept the presses warm all year. Among those that stood out was War Correspondent Philip Deane's I Was a Captive in Korea. In an even voice, he told of 33 months as a prisoner, exposed the shockingly calculated inhumanity of...
Atlanta, Ga: Dec. 29 at 12:00 noon at the Capital City Club. Joseph A. Wyant, 121 Courtland S.E.; Birmingham, Ala: Dec. 28. Arrangements will be announced later. Jerome A. Cooper, 32 Clarendon Rd.; Buffalo, N.Y.: Dec. 23 at 12:30 p.m. at the University Club of Buffalo. E. W...