Word: wilson
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Sadat is the first Egyptian and Begin the first Israeli to win the Peace Prize, joining a roster of 19 other nationalities. More Americans have won the Nobel than any other group: 16 in all, including Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Ralph Bunche, General George C. Marshall (the only career military man ever to win) and Martin Luther King...
Shirley J. Wilcher, vice president of the Harvard Black Law Students Association and a third-year law student, said that Wilson's ideas are a "realistic step in terms of the civil rights struggle...
...Wilson contrasted the work of the NAACP of the '70s with its old role, but she said that the group remains a basic, grass-roots civil rights movement. She said, for instance, that the organization's members recently helped post a $1.6 million bond in a Mississippi suit...
...There are no circumstances under which I would support a move to change the name of the NAACP," Wilson said. She said that the NAACP's reputation is "formidable in many areas," and that the word "colored" is appropriate because "colored" describes the many kinds of people that the group cares about...
Students who heard Wilson speak said her description of the new ways that the NAACP is working encouraged them, but said the group should balance its old and new images and activities...