Alabama University cracks wall as two Negroes enroll
Segregation at the University of Alabama cracks when Vivian Malone and James Hood enroll behind federalized guards. Gov. George Wallace defies federal officials, yields after Brig. Gen. Henry Graham orders him aside, and the students register with marshals present. Kennedy calls for sweeping anti discrimination legislation and civil rights action nationwide.
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Relman Morin
Tuscaloosa
Ala
Alabama
Kennedy
Congress
Vivian Malone
James A. Hood
Wallace
Henry V. Graham
31St Infantry Division
The
National Guard
Graham
University of Alabama At
White Man Enrolls at Negro College in Huntsville
Robert Mickel, 29, a chemistry teacher from Utica Nebraska, enrolled for summer classes at Alabama A&M under an NSF grant. He is believed to be the first white student at the 88-year old school, saying he did not know it was a Negro college until applying for campus housing. He stated he is not a martyr and only seeks his education.
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Wallace
University Center
Huntsville
Dave McGlathery
Edwin Guthman
Justice Department
Tuscaloosa
Lawmakers Back JFK Civil Rights Legislation Push
Washington leaders from both parties back President Kennedy on civil rights legislation though actions may be slow. Senate Republicans like Everett Dirksen pledge effort, while Hubert Humphrey predicts no final action before late summer amid expected southern filibuster and possible street protests. Ellender warns of bloodshed if a filibuster triggers violence.
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JFK
Washington
Kennedy
Senate
Everett M. Dirksen
Illinois
Dirksen
Congress
Hubert H. Humphrey
Minnesota
Humphrey
Nedy
The
Nation
Sen
Allen J. Ellender
D-La
New Ulm Rejects High School Bond Again
New Ulm Minnesota voters rejected a 2.25 million dollar bond for a new high school by 2,138 to 1,421. It was the third defeat for a high school bond, with similar issues earlier in May 1962 and a pool question for 250 thousand dollars also failing 2,380 to 1,091.
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New Ulm
Olson Named Minnesota Conservation Commissioner
Wayne Olson 38, deputy attorney general, is appointed state conservation commissioner by Gov. Rolvaag. Clarence Prout resigns after two years. Prout becomes forestry director with deputy Richard Knox returning to forestry. Olson is a Swanville native who studied at Upsala High School Macalester and the University of Minnesota.
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Richard Knox
Civil Service Division
Olson
Swanville
Morrison County
Upsala, Minn
Macalester College
University of Minnesota
Atty
Miles Lord
Nation to End Mercury Orbital Flights and Pursue Gemini
Space Chief James E. Webb announced no further Mercury orbital flights. NASA will advance the Gemini program to practice space docking for future Apollo moon missions. Webb told the Senate Space Committee the decision was made this morning.
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Washington
James E. Webb
Webb
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Senate Space Committee
Greece crisis as king presses royal UK visit
Greece faces a government crisis after King Paul insists on a scheduled visit to Britain next month causing Prime Minister Constantine Caramanlis to resign. The monarch’s move risks dissolving Parliament and triggering elections within 45 days, while NATO relations and domestic politics become entwined in the royal dispute.
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Athens
Greece
Paul
Frederika
Britain
Ceramanlis
National Radical Union Party
Caramanlis
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
NATO
Royal House
Elizabeth II
Irene
Cyprus
Nafttalin Wins Another 2 Year Term as Minneapolis Mayor
Minneapolis voters re elected Mayor Arthur Naftalin to a two year term as Democratic-Farmer-Labor candidate with 63 108 votes to 56 495 for P Kenneth Peterson Peterson had Republican backing and the charter amendment Naftalin tied to his drive lost 60 884 to 36 225. The 119 603 turnout was below half of registered voters.
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Kenneth Peterson
Peterson
Naftalin
Robert P. Jones
Richard Franson
Communists Take Opinion Polls in Several Nations
Public opinion polls by Communist regimes are reported by the US Information Agency. In Yugoslavia Poland and the Soviet Union polls show distrust of Marxist ideology among students and rural workers favor reform but urban poor show interest in socialist ideas. The agency notes incomplete Communist newspaper reports but highlights anti ideology sentiments and varied support for land reform and Castroism.
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Walter R. Mears
Washington
U.S. Information Agency
Poland
Yugoslavia
Soviet Union
USIR
House Appropriations Subcommittee
Zagreb Union of Communists
USIA
Latin America
Fire kills father and six children on Vashon Island
A fire swept a two story frame home on Vashon Island near Puget Sound killing a father and his six children. The mother was critically burned in the blaze.
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Seattle
Wash
Vashon Island
Here
Puget Sound
Medgar Evers Shot Dead in Mississippi Driveway
Medgar W. Evers, 37, Mississippi NAACP field secretary and a leading civil rights figure, was mortally wounded in the driveway of his Jackson home early today. He died about 56 minutes later at University Medical Center and police launched an FBI-assisted investigation.
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Jackson, Miss
Medgar W. Evers
South
Evers
Mississippi
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
University Medical Center
Jackson
W. B. Pierce
FBI
New York
Roy T. Wilkins
NAACP
Movement For Human Rights
Post
Wilkins
Racial riot in Cambridge leaves two shot and four injured
In Cambridge Maryland a crowd of about 100 whites and equal numbers of Negro demonstrators clashed near the courthouse and jail after protests over sentencing of two teenage Negro girls. Two white men were shot and several others injured as fires and gas bombs were used and police, state troopers, and K nine units tried to quell the disturbance.
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Cambridge
Carey Jarman
George E. Davidson
Maryland
Choptank
Davidson
Jerome Shenton
George Bernard Todd
Shelton
Shenton’s
Letter from 9-year-old complains about lifeguard inaction
In Rochester Minnesota a nine year old girl Linda Marie Hain recounts an incident at Silver Lake pool where a larger boy pulled her pool plug. She laments lifeguards failing to protect children and questions lifeguard duties. The letter ran in the Rochester Post Bulletin.
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Rochester
Minn
Rochester Post - Bulletin
Silver Lake Pool
Linda Marie Hain
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