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- I discovered that the law school offered an unusual one-month intensive course on race and poverty litigation taught by Betsy Bartholet, a law professor who had worked as an attorney with the NAACP Legal Defense Fund.† (source)
- Tensions rose, but peace prevailed, largely because of the tireless efforts of a forward-thinking mayor, Malcolm Maclean, and a nonviolent strategy adopted by black leaders, notably W. W. Law, the head of the local branch of the NAACP.† (source)
- Medgar Evers, the NAACP officer who live five minutes away, they blew up his carport last night.† (source)
- It felt like serendipity—she and several other women had recently founded the Turner Station Heritage Committee, and they were organizing events to bring attention to black people from Turner Station who'd contributed good things to the world: a former congressman who became president of the NAACP, an astronaut, and the man who'd won several Emmy awards as the voice of Sesame Street's Elmo.† (source)
- I think the NAACP is paying them to go.† (source)
- Scout, you probably don't know it, but the NAACP-paid lawyers are standing around like buzzards down here waiting for things like this to happen—† (source)
- I was the first, and only, white member of the NAACP here.† (source)
- Jesus, he probably punched the wrong numbers and got the NAACP.† (source)
- Your father and I have been charter members of the NAACP for the last twenty-five years.† (source)
- Kwang embracing leaders at an NAACP benefit.† (source)
- Did you know the restaurant you chose for the banquet is being picketed by CORE and the NAACP?† (source)
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- Whites told their black employees, and really believed it, that the NAACP and Martin Luther King were the black man's greatest enemies.† (source)
- "—everybody knows the NAACP's dedicated to the overthrow of the South …."† (source)
- Mother took the call from the NAACP telling us not to attend school the next day, Tuesday.† (source)
- Medgar Evers like a celebrity around here, being so high in the NAACP.† (source)
- I think we deserve everything we've gotten from the NAACP and more.† (source)
- I couldn't tell the others about him or talk about him to the NAACP people.† (source)
- Another NAACP official, Frank Smith, was driving the car I rode in with the remaining four students.† (source)
- The NAACP has a great deal to answer for in that department, too.† (source)
- Atticus, the NAACP hasn't done half of what I've seen in the past two days.† (source)
- We were having more frequent meetings with Mrs. Bates and other NAACP officials about our problems.† (source)
- In Cleveland we received the NAACP's highest honor, the Spingarn Medal.† (source)
- That NAACP's come down here and filled 'em with poison till it runs out of their ears.† (source)
- "I thought the NAACP was forbidden to do business in Alabama," said Jean Louise.† (source)
- One was the NAACP attorney, Wiley Branton.† (source)
- No, the trash is what the NAACP's after.† (source)
- The NAACP has invited me to certain forums but I feel token there.† (source)
- When he was attorney general before becoming governor, Patterson banned the NAACP from operating in Alabama and blocked civil rights boycotts and protests in Tuskegee and Montgomery.† (source)
- "Medgar Evers," he say, his voice sound like it's rolling backwards, "NAACP Field Secretary, is dead.† (source)
- Despite appeals from the NAACP and black clergy, who asked that the sentence be converted to life imprisonment, Governor Olin Johnston refused to intervene and George was sent to Columbia to be executed in South Carolina's electric chair.† (source)
- In 2013, along with Marsha Colbey, we decided to honor the charismatic former director of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, Elaine Jones, and the progressive icecream icons Ben (Cohen) and Jerry (Greenfield).† (source)
- But when the NAACP and her parents announced they would push to have a hearing, I kept a glimmer of hope.† (source)
- For the first time, I met Mrs. Daisy Bates, a petite and smartly dressed, steely-eyed woman who was the Arkansas state president of the NAACP.† (source)
- The Federal Government and the NAACP.† (source)
- You slang the Supreme Court within an inch of its life, then you turn around and talk like the NAACP.† (source)
- On February 8, 1956, the NAACP filed suit in Federal District Court to make the schools integrate immediately.† (source)
- I'd like for my state to be left alone to keep house without advice from the NAACP, which knows next to nothing about its business and cares less.† (source)
- By that time, segregationists were squeezing the life out of the NAACP and the Bateses' newspaper, the State Press.† (source)
- I don't know anything about that bunch except that some misguided clerk sent me some NAACP Christmas seals last year, so I stuck 'em on all the cards I sent home.† (source)
- The NAACP began a round of appeals up through the courts, trying to get us seven students back into Central High.† (source)
- Then the NAACP stepped in with its fantastic demands and shoddy ideas of government—can you blame the South for resenting being told what to do about its own people by people who have no idea of its daily problems?† (source)
- National NAACP officials arranged for Minnijean to have a scholarship to a famous private New York high school called New Lincoln.† (source)
- He was in real dutch this time, he needed real help and what do they do but sit in the kitchen and talk NAACP …. not long ago, Atticus would have done it simply from his goodness, he would have done it for Cal.† (source)
- The announcer talked about Thurgood Marshall and the NAACP asking the Federal District Court to start integration immediately.† (source)
- NAACP officials sent an announcement to chapters across the country, asking for families that would volunteer to give us safe harbor and support us in finishing our education.† (source)
- Meetings—my life was filled with meetings, boring meetings with the white superintendent of schools, the school board, with Central High School officials, with NAACP officials.† (source)
- The NAACP had counted on getting Minnijean's expulsion reversed, but Blossom and the school board were adamant in sticking to their conclusion, despite all the pressure on them.† (source)
- Not until September, 1960, did the NAACP, with its tenacious legal work, force Central High to open to integration once more—but only two black students were permitted entry.† (source)
- I had read that it was his research that had supported Thurgood Marshall and the NAACP's legal suit that resulted in the 1954 Supreme Court decision to integrate the schools.† (source)
- During those lonely days of what would have been my senior year, I waited for legislators and Faubus and the NAACP to resolve the entanglement that surrounded Central High's integration.† (source)
- The call just after midnight from the NAACP didn't really disturb us because we were already receiving a series of late night calls from segregationists who were loud and vulgar in their views.† (source)
- By reputation, she knew Lucien, like everyone else, as the old drunk lawyer who'd been the first white person to join the local NAACP and who now lived with his maid in the big house on the hill.† (source)
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