Word: newarks
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Rochelle was compelled under the 14th Amendment to allow the Negroes free access to white schools. More than half the Negroes transferred, leaving their old school near-defunct. Now the N.A.A.C.P. is battling for desegregation in at least 60 target areas from Connecticut to California: ∙Nine communities, from Newark. N.J., to Eloy, Ariz., have voluntarily desegregated. In more than 14 other communities, about half around New York City, the N.A.A.C.P. has filed federal suits or complaints with state officials. In Englewood. N.J.. a Negro store boycott is being urged by Negro Lawyer Paul Zuber. who filed the original...
...Right, Reverends." A Negro minister from Newark began to read from St. Paul's Letter to the Galatians: "Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ." Up stepped Laurie Pritchett. Albany's coolheaded, hard-as-nails police chief. "All right, reverends," he said. "I want to know what your purpose is." Answered the Rev. Norman Eddy, of Manhattan's interracial East Harlem Protestant parish: "Our purpose is to offer our prayers to God." "You have come to aid and abet the law violators of this city," the chief shot back...
...other groups belong with the best: > The Alex Bradford Singers take their name from a remarkable musician and an outstanding composer: Bradford's Too Close to Heaven has sold more than a million records. Alabama-born, he is a gifted choir director (now at Newark's Great Abyssinian Church), and his gospel style is notable for its sophistication-particularly in its choral effects. In churches around the country, Bradford and the group shout out their wildly exultant songs while appropriately clad in flowing robes...
...Newark...
DAVID SELBY Newark...