Word: tripped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Worthy's career previous to his trip to the mainland of China has been composed partly of active, but non-violent protest against segregation and partly of distinguished service as a foreign correspondent. His integrationist career has its roots in his family life. In 1916, before he was born, his grandmother was arrested for picketing the white-supremacy movie "Birth of a Nation" when it was shown in Boston, where Worthy's late father, a doctor from a small Georgia town, had moved. Worthy graduated from Boston Latin School and Bates College in Lewiston, Maine, and in 1951 studied...
...Racial Equality to test a Supreme Court decision ending segregation in interstate commerce. With an inter-racial group of 15 men, he toured the Upper South, and procured $250 in a damage suit against the Louisville and Nashville Railroad. There were a dozen arrests in two weeks during the trip. In 1948 he was part of a CORE group which challenged discrimination in a Greyhound Bus Co. terminal in Washington, D.C. The management closed the terminal and poured ammonia on the furniture and floor in order to make the inter-racial group leave, but, as Worthy says, "we stuck...
Like all touring teams, Cal has had to leave several of its stars behind due to "persona committments," and this factor, plus yesterday's long plane trip and the snow-free quality of this year's Eastern season should improve the Crimson's chances this afternoon...
Zbigniew K. Brzezinski, assistant professor of Government, plans a trip to Poland, his native country, where he will be especially interested in studying the political problems of the new Gomulka government. Brzezinski, who traveled in Soviet Russia last summer, advises students who may be going there this year to visit Leningrad and Tiflis, which he says are "freer and more open" than other Soviet cities...
...second singles, Steve Gottlieb will be attempting to fill the shoes of last year's captain Brooks Harris. Many who saw his excellent performance in the 1956 intercollegiates and who remember his fine play on the southern trip this spring feel...