Ministers Lead Protests Against Racial Bias in Hiring
In late July about 1500 Brooklyn-area worshippers demonstrated at Downstate Medical Center to challenge contracting bias. The march exposed union hiring practices as the root barrier, prompting Gov. Rockefeller's mediation and three Negro candidates under review for trade union entry.
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Brooklyn
Downstate Medical Center
Sandy Ray
William A. Jones
Dr. Ray
Gov. Rockefeller
Jones
Peter J. Brennan
Building and Construction Trades Council
Demonstrators in Cambridge push for equality struggles
Editor notes Columbia Law student Harvey Burg analyzes the Cambridge civil rights movement. Tensions rose in June as nonviolent demonstrations intensified. Two 15 year olds received reform school sentences triggering outrage over perceived brutal retaliation. CNAC ordered a citywide boycott and mass marches from June 10 to 13 through the white business district.
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Columbia Law
Harvey Burg
Cambridge
Maryland
CNAC
Owntown
Progress and Peril in Albany SNCC Voter Drive
A field secretary recounts ten months in Southwest Georgia with SNCC. progress is hard to measure as voter registration collides with entrenched segregation. He describes fear, hatred, and religious motivation shaping the push to register in Albany where about 600 Negroes registered last winter, a 36 percent share.
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Georgia
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
SNCC
South
Albany
Slater King
Albany Movement
Terrell and Lee
Terrell
George Washington Carver
Civil Rights Commission
Commission Finds Bill Unconstitutional in Civil Rights Debate
The Virginia Commission on Constitutional Government charges President Kennedy’s omnibus Civil Rights Bill would force severe constraints on other citizens. It criticizes Title II and IV for expanding federal power, delaying desegregation progress, and creating new agencies. The document warns of due process breaches and potential misuse of federal authority in school and community matters.
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Virginia Commission On Constitutional Government
Kennedy
Supreme Court
United States
Our Land
Virginia
Sumter County
Sumter
Americus
Albany
Chock Full O Nuts Explains Hiring Policy
Chock Full O Nuts defends its hiring as non integrated noting WW II era shifts. Chairman William Black says prewar hiring included whites and Negroes but war job dynamics reduced white applications. He claims few whites apply now and those who do leave for white collar positions.
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Chock Full O' Nuts
New York City
William Black
Chock Full O’ Nuts
Mr. Black
Black
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