Yorty Seeks More Aid While LA Faces Yo ur Own Responsibilities
Los Angeles Mayor Samuel Yorty urged more federal aid at a Senate subcommittee hearing, echoing Detroit Mayor Jerome P. Cavanagh and New York’s John Lindsay. Senator Ribicoff challenged Yorty to accept broader city duties, arguing LA’s governance waives essential powers on education welfare transportation and more. Kennedy pressed for stronger leadership while Yorty defended mayoral authority and responsibility.
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Washington
Abraham A. Ribicoff
D.conn
Samuel Yorty
Los Angeles
Ribicoff
Yorty
Watts
Sen
Robert F
Kennedy
Iaiver
America
Detroit
Jerome P. Cavanagh
Cavanagh
National League of Cities
U.S. Conference of Mayors
Black Power rises in civil rights divide in 1966
Atlanta reports on the birth of black power as a new ideology fracturing the civil rights movement. Stockley Carmichael leads SNCC in demanding self determination and economic power while King and NAACP push nonviolence and integration, fueling clashes in Jackson and Baltimore and setting up a Washington meeting to resolve the split.
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Atlanta
Mississippi
Greenwood Park
Jong
Black Power
Stockley Carmichael
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Civil Rights Alliance
Congress of Racial Equality
SNCC
Snick
Martin Luther King Jr
King
White House
Hubert H. Humphrey
Carmichael
SNCG
McKissick
James H. Meredith
Jackson
Memphis
Meredith
North Carolina
NAACP
Wilkins
Whitney Young Jr
National Urban League
Charles Evers
West Indies
Evers
Young
Johnson
United States
Congress
Selma
Montgomery
Ala
Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party
Black Panther” Party
Lowndes County
Greenwood
CORE
Freedom Democratic Party
Delta
National Council of Churches
King’s
SCLC
Medical Committee For Human Rights
Baltimore
Yazoo City
Harry Belafonte
SNCCC
Washington
Adam Clayton Powell
Harlem
Man Charged In Hit-Run Becomes Victim
In Rock Hill South Carolina William Miskelly a 39 year old who faced murder charges for a fatal hit and run was killed in a separate hit and run. Police say two motorists struck his body on a highway near York as it lay in the road after being arrested blocks from the original crash.
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Rock Hill
S.C
William Miskelly
Miskelly
York
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Durham
Miami
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By Don McKee
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T. Breeme
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Bear Fitzgerald Apts
W. Main St
Swift Homes
Mahlon Effinger
Swift
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