Cambridge Riot Tests Integration Fight and Guard Request
Witness accounts describe a biased clash in Cambridge as 500 marchers reached the Courthouse steps blocked by whites who harassed them with obscenities and objects. The riot escalated with improvised weapons and gunfire, but no deaths occurred. by June 14 the city asked the Governor to deploy the National Guard. A local resident recalls fighting for equality rather than integration, criticizing police inaction and praising the National Guard's efforts to grant equal protection.
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Juine
Second Ward
Cambridge
Bull Connor
Muslim Leaders Clash Over So-Called Negro Groups
The article profiles Muslim leaders resisting assimilationist Black groups and criticizing established civil rights organizations as white or Jewish run. It cites Malcolm X, Elijah Muhammad, and Ali arguing for an independent Black Muslim identity, distrust of integration, and reliance on divine guidance.
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Malcolm X
NAACP
Roy Wilkins
Arthur Spingan
Urban League
CORE
Legal Defense Fund
Elijah Muhammad
Gandhi
Dr. King
Mr. Ali
Open City commission pushes integrated housing and schools plan
The CCHR advances a broad bias free program. It meets with the Board of Education to secure a plan for thorough integration and calls off a planned New York City Schools Negro boycott. It targets major housing financiers to guarantee integration and holds a large building trades hearing to open union rolls. The group also aids Puerto Ricans and other minorities and participates in the Columbia Barnard Citizenship Program with eighteen interns.
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CCHR
Board of Education
New York City
Commission
Mas
Sive
Brooklyn
Murphy
Columbia- Barnard
Americus Beating Sparks Negro Rights Outcry in Georgia
In Americus Georgia a wave of police brutality against demonstrators erupts as SNCC field secretaries face possible death penalties for inciting insurrection. Widespread injuries include broken legs and head wounds from clubbing while protesters, many teenagers, suffer burns and demeaning treatment. The piece links events to Albany and broader racial tension, urging action against ongoing injustice.
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Americus
SNCC
C. B. King
Africans View Civil Rights Struggle Here
Africans visiting the United States express interest in aiding the civil rights effort while distinguishing Americans from U S foreign policy. They note welcome upon recognition as Americans and offer mixed views on Kennedy. Cuban and Chinese policy draws sharp criticism.
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U.S
Miss Clarke
Africa
Kennedy
Chock Full O Nuts Ads Hiring to Ease Picket Strikes
The chain explained its hiring choices in a postscript, listing Blue Cross Blue Shield time and a half overtime free meals loans without interest and birthdays off with pay. Two week white picketing protested discrimination in hiring by white applicants, waged by college students.
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Blue Cross
Blue Shield
Jester Plans A Satire Show On WKCR Radio
In planning stages is a half hour satire program for the coming year on WKCR as part of student humor efforts. Mr. Auspitz sees radio as a fine medium for comedy and notes that the show will target issues and grievances, inviting student input.
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WKCR
Auspitz
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City College
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Americus, Ga
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China
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Ation
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112Th St
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113Th Streets
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International Association of Students
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