Word: civilizer
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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another, proposed by Roderick Firth, Alford Professor of Natural Religion. Moral Philosophy and Civil Polity, would order officers of instruction to "schedule academic exercises [exams, etc.] for the fall term in a way that will not penalize students who are absent
...years ago, Hosea Williams, the son of a Georgia dirt farmer, gave up a $14,000-a-year job with the U.S. Department of Agriculture ("I was a very., very good chemist") to join Martin Luther King Jr. Williams has since become one of the country's leading civil rights leaders. He was field marshal for the Meredith Mississippi march and the march from Selma to Montgomery, as well as last week's march to Atlanta. TIME Correspondent Peter Range kept pace with him for a time last week as Williams bitterly talked about the events at Augusta...
...Jackson State, from the evidence that I see now, are really bringing the black community in the South closer together. And I see something now growing out of these atrocities and resulting in a much more militant black community. I also envision a shift of the main battleground of civil rights from the North back to the South. I never did buy the Northern move. I was the only executive on Dr. King's staff that he never did get up North, and I say today, the only chance that the young Northerners have, both black and white, lies...
Washington had withstood civil rights marchers, poor people and antiwar demonstrators. But last week the capital came under siege from legions whose troops represented the Establishment itself. Nearly 1,000 New York lawyers, some of them from the same firm in which the President and Attorney General John Mitchell had once been partners, appeared to plead the case for peace in Southeast Asia...
...funds for parochial schools, thereby provoking one of McCormack's rare rebellions against a Democratic President. McCormack prevailed. They called him the "Archbishop" in the cloakrooms, and he resented it. Despite his close association with Southern Democrats throughout his House career, McCormack was also a strong advocate of civil rights legislation. He once denounced a Mississippi Democrat on the floor for his bigotry. He was always cordial toward the Jewish community, and his first appointment to the Naval Academy was a Jewish youth: some of his constituents called him "Rabbi John...