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Автор: Jesse Russel
Год: 2012
Издание:
Книга по Требованию
Страниц: 100
ISBN: 9785513616412
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Clarence M. Mitchell, Jr. (March 8, 1911 - March 19, 1984) was a civil rights activist and was the chief lobbyist for the NAACP for nearly 30 years. He also served as a regional director for the organization. Mitchell, nicknamed "the 101st U.S. Senator", waged a tireless campaign on Capitol Hill to secure the passage of a comprehensive series of civil rights laws: the 1957 Civil Rights Act, the 1960 Civil Rights Act, the 1964 Civil Rights Act, the 1965 Voting Rights Act and the 1968 Fair Housing Act. In 1969 he won the Spingarn Medal for these efforts. Later he faced some criticism in the black community for supporting Daniel Patrick Moynihan (see Assistant Secretary of Labor; controversy over the War on Poverty) and defending the state of Israel. On June 9, 1980, he was presented with the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Jimmy Carter. After his retirement, he wrote a Sunday editorial column for The Baltimore Sun, every Sunday,...
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