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The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by Fuebaey (talk) 07:40, 22 December 2014 (UTC)

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Stephen Gill Spottswood

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E. Franklin Jackson and Stephen G. Spottswood representing the NAACP in a meeting with president John F. Kennedy at the White House

  • ALT1:... that NAACP chairman Stephen Gill Spottswood said Richard Nixon "made it a matter of calculated policy to work against the needs and aspirations of the largest minority of its citizens"?

Created by Rhododendrites (talk). Self nominated at 21:11, 9 November 2014 (UTC).

  • This is only my second stab at DYK, and the first time creating the nomination page myself, so my apologies if I made a mistake. I'm also not sure if there are rules about the political content or tone of these. I chose factual statements referring to what he said rather than e.g. "he criticized Nixon's anti-black policies", of course, but beyond that I wasn't sure. I'm also not sure of the image -- I just uploaded that image to go with the article, but it's probably too confusing to include as it's with a different president from the one the hook talks about (and it's frankly not a great picture of the subject -- just the only one I could find with proper licensing). Anyway, looking forward to feedback. --— Rhododendrites talk \\ 21:16, 9 November 2014 (UTC)

Stephen G. Spottswood when he represented the NAACP in a meeting with President John F. Kennedy at the White House

  • I've uploaded a cropped version of the photo, which may be more suited to this DYK. MANdARAX • XAЯAbИAM 22:56, 10 November 2014 (UTC)
    • Thanks. I had started to do that, but it's just such a bad picture of him (mid-blink, with a half-grin/half-grimmace) I figured the action around him added enough interesting historical context to make it useful. I suppose it is better if we're talking about him rather than about his life['s events], though. --— Rhododendrites talk \\ 01:30, 11 November 2014 (UTC)
It would be a bit confusing to have the hook mention Nixon the but photo show JFK. EEng (talk) 04:02, 13 November 2014 (UTC)
  • New enough, long enough, well referenced, no close paraphrasing seen. The first hook looks good, but the article and sources say "anti-Negro", not "anti-black", so I tweaked the hook. Hook ref verified and cited inline. No QPQ needed for nominator with less than 5 DYKs. I don't think any of the images help the hook. Good to go. Yoninah (talk) 21:01, 20 December 2014 (UTC)
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