Word: movements
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...This newer assertiveness has been encountered in places by a recrudescence of anti-Negro feeling. But more significant is the fact that in both North and South, white elements of society have welcomed the movement of the Negro upward, believing that America will be a much more wholesome nation if the Negro can contribute his brains and muscles to the welfare of society...
Present plans call for the demonstration to take place on Wednesday, April 23, at 11 o'clock, at which time all students interested in the movement will walk out of their classes. In past years, there has been a meeting at which the strikers assemble to hear addresses. No plans for this year's meeting have as yet been completed...
Berger, leader of the movement, not only organized the sweater brigade, but also turned out the best piece of cloth. When contacted last night, he said that he will continue his 'knittiu' for Britin'" though all the other puriers gave up in discouragement. "I'll turn out a sweater yet," he boasted...
Died The Rev. Heinrich Niemoller, 81, father of the Rev. Martin Niemoller, imprisoned leader of the Confessional movement which opposed Nazi domination of the German Lutheran Church in Elberfeld, Germany...
Birth Control is no longer a "crusading" movement. Gone are the days when Nurse Margaret Sanger languished in jail for "obscenity," or when her sister Ethel went on a hunger strike to attract public attention. Birth-control clinics are still illegal in only two States; contraceptives may now legally be sold in all but two.* According to a recent Gallup Poll, 77% of U. S. citizens favor dissemination of birth-control information through Government health clinics. Three States (North and South Carolina, Alabama) include contraception in their public health programs. With its 612 clinics doing a land-office business...