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  SurfWax: News, Reviews and Articles On Kaplan
Eolas' trial attorney, Martin Lueck of Robins, Kaplan, Miller i, said the favorable decision along with the appeals court ruling on Microsoft's infringement should lead to a quick resolution of the case "so that the university and Eolas can be fairly compensated for the use of their property right.".
Kaplan, meanwhile, said he didnt even buy his six Good Feet stores until 2003 and was not told the loans were set up to help businesses recover from the terrorist attacks...
Kaplan noted that more than half the cellphones being sold today globally are enabled for this technology, and the number is increasing rapidly.
news.surfwax.com /software/files/Kaplan_Software.html   (5206 words)

  
 Kivie Kaplan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Kivie Kaplan, a fellow board member of the national NAACP, offered to buy 250 copies “for gifts” if Bates would autograph them.
Kivie Kaplan was an African-american Jew that strived to help the needs of his oppressed people and president of the NAACP.
He fought to keep fls away from the drugs that the nation was currently dealing at the time.
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 Kivie Kaplan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Kivie Kaplan was a white Jewish businessman and in Boston who strived to help oppressed He served as president of the NAACP from 1966 to 1975.
Kivie Kaplan: A legend in his own time
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www.freeglossary.com /Kivie_Kaplan   (202 words)

  
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Machon is Hebrew for “program or institute.” Kivie Kaplan was a vice-Chairman of the Union for Reform Judaism and, for the last eight years of his life, the National President of the NAACP.
Kivie and his wife Emily provided funds for the purchase of the building that houses the Religious Action Center, which was named in their honor.
Kivie Kaplan was the embodiment of the spirit and idealism upon which the Religious Action Center was founded.
www.rac.org /_kd/Items/actions.cfm?action=Show&item_id=1093&destination=ShowItem   (1941 words)

  
 ALEXANDRIA NAACP LIFE MEMBERSHIP STORY   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Kaplan became chairman of the NAACP's National Life Membership Committee, and the annual payment plan was launched in 1954.
Kaplan, who during his lifetime purchased 65 Life Memberships for members of his family, became the first Golden Heritage Life Member.
Counting our first Kivie Kaplan Award for 1973, Sammy Davis, Jr., Awards in 1975 and 1986, and the Bill Cosby Award for 1994, we have earned national recognition 25 of the past 26 years.
www.naacpalexandria.org /story.html   (1416 words)

  
 Kivie Kaplan -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Kivie Kaplan -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
He served as (The chief executive of a republic) president of the (additional info and facts about NAACP) NAACP from 1966 to 1975.
He fought to keep (A person with dark skin who comes from Africa (or whose ancestors came from Africa)) fls away from illegal drugs.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/k/ki/kivie_kaplan.htm   (55 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: National Association for the Advancement of Colored People   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Congress passed a civil rights bill aimed at ending racial discrimination in employment, education and public accommodations in 1964, followed by a voting rights act in 1965.
After Kivie Kaplan died in 1975, Benjamin Hooks, a lawyer and clergyman, was elected the NAACP's executive director in 1977.
In the 1990s, the NAACP ran into debt, and the dismissal of two leading officials further added to the picture of an organization in deep crisis.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/National-Association-for-the-Advancement-of-Colored-People   (2551 words)

  
 The Civil-Rights Movement   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The Jewish leadership of the NAACP was little known by the public at large.
Because he was so much in the press and public eye, like most Americans, I thought Wilkins was the NAACP leader.
But Kaplan was the actual NAACP president during that time.
www.tworca.org /civilrights.htm   (1121 words)

  
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 American Jewish Archives
Papers of Kivie Kaplan document his career as president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) from 1966 to 1975, as well as his philanthropic activities.
The collection includes correspondence, memoranda, press releases, photographs, newsclippings, and nearprint material relating to Kaplan's activities in the NAACP, Jewish organizations, and business.
Correspondence, newsclippings, articles, awards, and photographs relating to the activities and interests of Saul Kaplun, Morris Kaplun and other members of the Kaplun family.
www.americanjewisharchives.org /aja/collections/01_k.html   (556 words)

  
 Marc Musing   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
We were, simply put, two minorities helping each other attain the full blessings of the American heritage.
Kivie Kaplan, Al Vorspan, Rabbi Dr. Abraham Joshua Heschel, Rabbi Dr. Mark Tanenbaum, were integral to the civil rights movement and close confidants of Dr. King.
But – and this is critical – their connection to Dr. King was not politically driven by socialism/communism.
www.marcmusing.com /influences_under.html   (901 words)

  
 Office of Cable Television and Telecommunication   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
To amend the Make a Difference Selection Committee Establishment Act of 1998 to increase the number of yearly honorees from 10 to 25, and to provide that the nominations which the Council does not approve or disapprove within the 30-day review period shall be deemed approved.
"Kivie Kaplan Way Designation Act of 2003," Bill 15-146.
To symbolically designate 21st Street, N.W., between Massachusetts Avenue and Q Street, N.W., as Kivie Kaplan Way.
octt.dc.gov /services/channel13/June2003/describe_1143.shtm   (203 words)

  
 The Lauren, A Condominium in downtown Washington DC - ANC B2 March 12, 2003 Meeting Summary
-- Proposal to Symbolically Rename 21st Street Between Massachusetts Avenue and Q Street, NW, in Honor of Kivie Kaplan: This matter was preliminarily discussed during the January meeting.
The Commission considered proposed DC Council legislation to provide the honorary designation of Kivie Kaplan Way to this portion of 21st Street, NW.
Rabbi Kaplan was the founder of the Religious Action Center, which is located at this intersection, and was a significant civil rights leader.
www.lauren.org /mm030401.htm   (1205 words)

  
 Religious Action Center - History of the RAC
Among the guests at the dedication are Supreme Court Justice Arthur Goldberg, UAHC President Rabbi Maurice Eisendrath, NAACP Board of Directors Chairman Bishop Stephen Spottswood, (soon-to-be Senator) Howard Metzenbaum, and Kivie and Emily Kaplan.
1976: The Kivie Kaplan Seminar (now called Machon Kaplan) is created as a summer work/study program in social action for college students.
Most of the basement has been converted into a 90-seat conference center, eliminating the continuing need for the RAC to rent meeting space for many of its smaller conferences and meetings.
rac.org /aboutrac/rachistory   (1732 words)

  
 Faces of those who would destroy the West. A gift to antis. - Stormfront White Nationalist Community   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Location: There is a fountain, mute and nearly still, That rises from the valley soil to spill, Its wealth on barn and milkshed where they meet, Bathed in the autumn vine called bitter-sweet — Ellin Anderson
Kivie Kaplan was born on April 1, 1904 in Boston, Massachusetts.
He had joined the anti-Western N.A.A.C.P. in 1932 and was elected to the National Board in 1954.
www.stormfront.org /forum/showthread.php?t=37857&page=2&pp=10   (1992 words)

  
 Temple Israel Boston - Calendar
They wanted to remain part of the fabric of the city and to play major roles in the social and governmental activities of the city.
Temple Israel has provided an honor role of social and political activists throughout its history: Roland Gittelsohn, Kivie Kaplan, Bernard Mehlman, Joshua Loth Leibman, Barney Frank, Nancy Gertner, Max Stern, to name a few of the more recent participants.
Suitably for this occasion, Martin Luther King spoke here at the Temple twice while he was leading the civil rights movement in the 1960’s.
www.tisrael.org /calendar/events.php?page=3549   (790 words)

  
 Black Chronicle   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Previously, he had served in the U.S. House of Representatives as a Democrat from Maryland.
Gordon, who is to be confirmed this week by the association’s board of directors in Atlanta, would be the first president who was not a politician or clergy member since a businessman, Kivie Kaplan, served as president from 1966 until 1975.
Some close to the NAACP confirmed the selection, but asked to remain anonymous since the official announcement will not come until after Mr.
news.mywebpal.com /partners/356/public/news641921.html   (365 words)

  
 Feingold and Silverman (1976) Kivie Kaplan: A legend in his own time
Feingold and Silverman (1976) Kivie Kaplan: A legend in his own time
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; Judaism and social problems; Addresses, essays, lectures; Kaplan, Kivie
There are no citations on file at this time.
www.getcited.org /?PUB=101664965&showStat=Citations   (56 words)

  
 MARCH 10 - MARCH 21, 2001
"Kivie Kaplan Way Designation Emergency Declaration Resolution of 2003," PR 15-117.
Bill 15-145, "District of Columbia Support for the Arts Act of 2003." To authorize the Mayor to make grants to certain arts organizations for capital costs incurred in the development, renovation, rehabilitation or construction of facilities owned and used by such arts organizations.
Street, N.W., between Massachusetts Avenue and Q Street, N.W., as Kivie Kaplan Way.
www.dccouncil.washington.dc.us /Calend02.htm   (2674 words)

  
 Temple Emanu-El: View Message in Archive   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Prominent among these was Rabbi Maurice Eisendrath, a tremendous figure in American Reform Judaism, who served as the UAHC President from 1943 until 1972, and who was very much of a spiritual partner to King in the struggle against racism.
For more than a decade during the late 60’s and early 70’s Kivie Kaplan, a vice-chair of the Reform Jewish movement, was the national President of the NAACP, and still today, Rabbi David Saperstein of our Religious Action Center remains the only non-African-American member of the NAACP board.
In his stirring address, Rabbi Prinz remarked: “I speak to you as an American Jew.
www.emanu-el.org /view_message.asp?Type=1&ID=213   (669 words)

  
 Books In Review: Briefly Noted
Friedman has written an engrossing book rescuing the history of fl and Jewish relations.
Manipulation theories cannot explain Allard Lowenstein or Kivie Kaplan, or Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner (murdered in Mississippi while registering fl voters).
Without Jewish votes, fl mayors might not have been elected in New York, Chicago, and Philadelphia.
www.leaderu.com /ftissues/ft9505/reviews/briefly.html   (2383 words)

  
 Papers of the NAACP   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The association wrestled with momentous issues during this period—the implementation of desegregation in the South, violent backlash against voting rights work, the emergence of a plethora of new civil rights groups, de facto segregation and urban crises in the North, and the passage of federal civil rights legislation.
Among the NAACP leaders whose work is represented in the files are Roy Wilkins, Daisy Bates, Daisy Lampkin, Eleanor Roosevelt, A. Philip Randolph, Benjamin E. Mays, Kivie Kaplan, Arthur Spingarn, Stephen Gill Spottswood, and many others.
The Kivie Kaplan files detail his prodigious fund-raising on behalf of the NAACP and show his efforts to strengthen the relationship between the African American and Jewish communities during the 1950s and 1960s.
www.lexisnexis.com /academic/2upa/Aaas/PapersNAACP.asp   (12523 words)

  
 Untitled Document   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
We cannot betray ourselves and the history that the haters wish to obliterate.
The history of Arthur Spingarn and Kivie Kaplan, the Jewish president of the NAACP, the history of half or more of the White young people who went down to Mississippi to work with Black people were of the Jewish faith.
We cannot forget that proportionately more rabbis went down South and were jailed and beaten than any other group of clergypersons.
www.vbs.org /rabbi/hshulw/farrak_bot.htm   (1548 words)

  
 NAACP to pick former Verizon exec as leader - 06/16/05   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Gordon, 59, is expected to be approved by the NAACP's 64-member board of directors at a meeting in Atlanta on June 25.
He would succeed former U.S. Rep. Kweisi Mfume, D-Md., who stepped down in December, and would become the first nonminister or nonpolitician to lead the nation's oldest and largest civil rights organization since Jewish businessman Kivie Kaplan took the helm in 1966.
NAACP Chairman Julian Bond was traveling Tuesday and did not return telephone calls seeking comment.
www.detnews.com /2005/nation/0506/17/A12-217089.htm   (244 words)

  
 Judaism: What Went Wrong? The Creation and Collapse of the Black-Jewish Alliance. - book reviews   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
He effectively refutes such conspiracy devotees as Khalid Muhammad, Harold Cruse, and David Levering Lewis, who have argued that Jews have sought to manipulate Blacks for their own purposes.
Friedman, by contrast, emphasizes that such an interpretation cannot explain the activities of Allard Lowenstein, Kivie Kaplan, or Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner, who were murdered in Mississippi while doing voter-registration work among the state's Blacks.
Without the votes of Jews, Harold Washington in Chicago, Wilson Goode in Philadelphia, and David Dinkins in New York City would never have been elected mayors of these cities.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0411/is_n3_v44/ai_17422996   (1178 words)

  
 FrontPage magazine.com :: The NAACP's Red Roots by Al Benson Jr.
This publication gave DuBois an excellent outlet from which to pour forth all manner of racial invective against whites, supposedly in the name of "promoting equality."
According to the Biographical Dictionary of the Left, "Long tenure in office has also been characteristic of the NAACP's presidents--all white men: Moorfield Story (1910-1915), Joel Springarn (1915-1940), Arthur Springarn (1940-1966), and since 1966, Kivie Kaplan." Since the Biographical Dictionary was published in 1969, obviously some things have changed.
However, it is interesting to note how long the organization had white presidents, almost as if the radicals didn't trust the fls to take the organization in the proper direction (to the left).
www.frontpagemag.com /Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=3404   (927 words)

  
 Jewish Dominance and Exploitation of the Black Civil Rights Movement
He was succeeded by his brother Arthur (for many years head of the NAACP's Legal Committee) till 1966, when another Jew, Kivie Kaplan, "a millionaire manufacturer of patent leather," [HILLEL/LEVINE, p.
"By 1968," note Hillel Levine and Lawrence Harmon, "the perceived paternalistic leadership style of Kaplan and other prominent Jews in the civil rights movement was coming under increasingly sharp attack.
127] Only with Kaplan's death in 1975 did the NAACP -- 64 years after its founding -- have the opportunity to elect its first Black president.
www.jewishtribalreview.org /naacp.htm   (5671 words)

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