Word: civilizer
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Today is the 41st anniversary of the birth of civil rights leader Martin Luther King, who was assassinated in Memphis in April...
...February 8, civil authorities ordered the campus sealed off and sent more than 100 riot-trained police to enforce their mandate...
Nine highway patrolmen were later charged with violation of the victims' civil rights, a Federal misdemeanor. The U.S. Department of Justice prosecuted, but the nine were acquitted after a week long trial. The jury included two blacks...
Segregation Academies. In some districts, this will undoubtedly be the case. Philadelphia, near where three civil rights workers were murdered in 1964, is expected to desegregate without incident. So is Yazoo City, a west central Mississippi community of 12,100. Instead of waiting vainly for last-minute deliverance, local leaders called a public meeting to appeal for calm and compliance. They will probably get both. A majority of the 1,200 attending left the meeting convinced that the public school system could survive the integration of the town's 2,014 white and 2,089 black students...
Alexander, a black Overseer, was counsel and special consultant for civil rights under President Johnson and chairman of the U. S. Equal Employment Opportunities Commission from...