Word: integrationist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...round-table discussion on "Race in America" will be held Thursday at 8 p.m., in the St. Mark's Social Center, Roxbury. Participants will include Louis X, minister of the Boston Temple of Islam; Noel Day, of the Boston Action Group; and Conrad Lynn, attorney for integrationist Robert Williams...
...integrationist marchers who followed Moore last week were trying to finish his trip. They were not allowed to do so. Was it all just a hopeless pursuit of the impossible? In Binghamton, Mayor John J. Burns did not think so: "This taught all of us a lesson. He was scorned here. I think now we're all sorry he was. Maybe the next time someone wants to picket the courthouse, we will tolerate brave people...
...goes in the South, which last year accounted for 23 of the A.A.U.P.'s 55 outstanding cases of academic freedom. This year the ratio is significantly down: 18 out of 68. But things are still not all rosy, particularly at Negro colleges, where state officials have hounded integrationist teachers and students...
...emphasize the travails of the South, an integrationist postman named William Moore, walking from Chattanooga, Tenn. to Jackson, Miss, to protest segregation, was shot and killed on a lonely Alabama highway. President Kennedy called the slaying an ''outrageous crime," and Alabama's Wallace offered a $1,000 reward for the murderer's capture...
...death, Moore had been stopped by an investigator from the Alabama State Police. "I asked him to call off his walk or at least to take off the integrationist signs he was wearing," the investigator later told a New York Times reporter. "I warned him about the racial situation in Alabama but he wouldn't listen. He told me in a very nice way that he wanted to prove something and couldn't if he turned back." Half an hour later Moore was dead...