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William Worthy, Jr. (July 7, 1921 – May 4, 2014) was an African-American journalist, civil rights activist, and dissident who pressed his right to travel regardless of U.S. State Department regulations.
May 18, 2014 · May 17, 2014. William Worthy, a foreign correspondent who in the thick of the Cold War ventured where the United States did not want him to go — including the Soviet Union, China, Cuba — and...
Feb 6, 2020 · Despite such a formidable attorney as William Kunstler, Worthy was found guilty and sentenced to three months’ imprisonment and nine months’ probation. The case went all the way to the Supreme...
May 20, 2014 · William Worthy, who reported from countries that were considered U.S. enemies during the Cold War, has died. He was 92.
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May 12, 2014 · William Worthy, a correspondent for the Baltimore Afro-American newspaper who made news — and inspired a folk song — by challenging U.S. policies to report from China and Cuba in the 1950s and...
- Emily Langer
May 6, 2014 · William Worthy, 92, a Boston-born journalist, set constitutional precedent and changed passport law when he took on the US government by reporting in foreign countries where the State...
May 18, 2014 · a World War II conscientious objector and defiant international correspondent who traveled to Cuba, China and Iran, faced federal prosecution, and was the subject of the Phil Ochs song,...
