Word: rev
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...REV.) JOHN J. DAHLHEIMER...
...Civil Rights Commission's chairman, the Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, said that "the Federal Government is not yet in a position to claim that it is enforcing the letter, let alone the spirit, of civil rights laws." Blacks see Nixon, claimed Clifford Alexander Jr., former chairman of the Equal Employment Opportunities Commission, as "actively against our goals." The National Urban League's Harold Sims charged that under Nixon "the nation is still in the grip of a not silent but selfish majority...
Outside the shabby Metropolitan Theater in the center of Chicago's South Side black ghetto, a crowd on the sidewalk listened carefully to the words coming from loudspeakers. For almost four hours, they and 3,000 others jammed inside heard the Rev. Jesse Jackson spell out his plans for Operation PUSH-People United to Save Humanity-which would continue the programs he started while head of Operation Breadbasket. The new organization, Jackson said, would be born officially on Christmas Day, and its membership would be a "rainbow coalition" of people, white and black, who would "push for a greater...
...REV.) G. RALPH DUFFY Washington...
...first attempt to synthesize the conflicting strategies came in Washington, D.C., last week. The Rev. Walter Fauntroy. Washington's nonvoting delegate to Congress, announced that he would run as a favorite son in the District of Columbia primary-with an unstated agreement that the bulk of Washington's 15 delegate votes would go to Chisholm...