Dawn on the Docks A Civil Rights Eye Witness Account
Six teens linked arms with CORE to stop unloading the South African ship Pioneer at Brooklyn docks. They faced a cordial, defiant crowd of longshoremen and questioned personal complicity in apartheid while seeking collective action and moral responsibility.
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America
South Africa
NSM Holds Conference Heads to New Approach Theme
The third annual intercollegiate NSM conference runs October 25 to 27 on the Columbia campus. Theme is Social Justice A New Approach with speakers Bayard Austin Paul Goodman James Baldwin Peter Countryman and Dr Robert Spike. Delegates from 65 colleges are expected. registration starts 6 30 p m Friday at Earl Hall auditorium.
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The
Northern Student Movement
Columbia
Columbia Core
Bayard Austin
Paul Goodman
James Baldwin
Peter Countryman
Robert Spike
NSM
107Th Street
Morningside Drive
Earl Hall
SNCC Worker Faces Death Sentence in Georgia
Don Harris, a 1963 Rutgers graduate and SNCC volunteer who aided integration in Sumter County, faces the death sentence in Americus, Georgia after arrest for incitement to insurrection. NAACP Legal Defense Fund and attorney Michael Meltsner challenge the charges as unconstitutional while appeals and injunctions are pursued.
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Don Harris
Rutgers University
Americus
Georgia
Mr. Harris
SNCC
Sumter County
Americas
Harris
Naacp’s
Legal Defense Fund
Michael Meltsner
NAACP
William Kunstler
Kunstfler
Bulletin
Naacp Legal Defense Fund
Naacp Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc
Arlington High School Closure Signals Desegregation Move
A letter from a Arlington County student discusses the 1964 decision to close the Negro high school and redistrict its students into white schools. The action, backed by a citizen's committee and the School Board, signals an abandonment of high school segregation. Critics warn of political retaliation by Defenders of State Sovereignty and Individual Rights who seek to shift school board appointment power to the Circuit Court dominated by Byrd-Machine appointees.
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Arlington
Virginia
Eignty
Circuit Court
Byrd-Machine
Arlington County
Piovia
Miss Shagaloff
NAACP spokesman criticizes Governor Rockefeller silence
NAACP education chief June Shagaloff urges Gov Rockefeller to publicly back school desegregation in New York and meet with NAACP leaders. She warns that silence could spark a bitter violent struggle and outlines four desegregation plans for New York City schools.
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Rockefeller
New York State
June Shagaloff
NAACP
Barnard
Gov. Rockefeller
Deep South
Miss Shagaloff
Columbia Graduate School of Journalism
United States
Shagaloff
New York
Harlem
Bedford-Stuyvesant
Board of Education
Women audit classes at Barnard for continuing education
Women recount the privilege of auditing courses with professors like Burrell and pursue new studies at Barnard. Alumna Katherine McCollum notes life patterns and the need to prove individuality while auditing Russian 3. Readmissions to Barnard have risen from 32 in 1960 to 52 this year, driven by demand for educational services.
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Burrell
Barnard
Katherine B. McCollum
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