Racial unrest defined 1965 in the South
A year in review notes that federal registrars expanded in four states, Black voters surged to 2.5 to 3 million in the 11 states, and desegregation progressed amid violence. Seven people died, hundreds were injured, and Klan activity rose while Congress passed voting rights. Major incidents occurred in Selma, Montgomery, and Natchez with ongoing protests and court actions shaping the era.
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Atlanta
Martin Luther King, Jr
Montgomery
Ala
South
King
Supreme Court
Chicago
Alabama
Selma
Trig
Johnson
Mississippi
Louisiana
South Carolina
Department of Justice
Hayneville
Jonathan M. Daniels
Keene
N.H
Daniels
Liuzzo
Anniston
Brewster iSlaying
Wilkins
Fayette
Natchez
Bogalusa
O’neal Moore
Americus
Andrew Whatley
Crawfordville
Charlotte
N.C
Brownsville
Covington
Ambassadors Harriman and Goldberg embody wealth and poverty
New York AP reports two Americans in the Viet Nam conflict diplomacy debate. W Averell Harriman, 74, born wealthy, rose from banking to key posts in Roosevelt and Truman administrations and now ambassador at large for Johnson. Arthur J. Goldberg, 57, son of Russian immigrants, climbed from delivery boy to lawyer, labor negotiator, secretary of labor, then Supreme Court contributor, and since last year ambassador to the United Nations.
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Viet Nam
W. Averell Harriman
Johnson
Arthur J. Goldberg
U.S
United Nations
Harriman
E.H. Harriman
Union Pacific Railroad
Alfred E. Smith
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Truman
Quebec
Moscow
Teh-ran
Yalta
Potsdam
Roosevelt
Winston Churchill
San Francisco
Nelson
A. ‘Rockefeller
John F. Kennedy
Goldberg
Chicago
de Paul University
Northwestern University Law Schor
Lut
American Newspaper Guild
CIO
United Steelworkers Union
Kennedy
Felix Frankfurter
U.S. Supremes Court
United States
Vice President Hum contract pauses to bless wounded paratrooper
In Manila at Clark Air Force Base, Vice President Hubert Humphrey visited wounded paratrooper Steve Mabry of Gaffney South Carolina. Mabry, 18, was injured in a South Vietnam battle, played dead to survive, and received a phone call from home after the visit.
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Gaffney
S.C
Pfe
Steve Mabry
Clark Air Force Base
Manila
Steve
Hubert Humphrey
Mabry
Clark Afb
Viet Nam
Humphrey
Macedonia
Cherokee County
W. Frederick St
Deroy Mabry
Roy Clary
Spartanburg Herald
173Rd Airborne
Twenty-Six Indicted Over Navy Yard Theft Ring
Twenty six men were indicted by a federal grand jury on charges tied to large scale thefts of government property at the Charleston Naval Shipyard. The 49 page indictment lists 274 overt acts, with losses estimated in the millions and $250,000 recovered.
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Navy Yard
Charleston
S.C
Charleston Naval Shipyard
FBI
Columbia
Navy
S. Asst
Klyde Robinson
Lnto
Virginia
Florida
California
Texas
Oregon
Henry Howard Harris
Naval Supply Center
Harris
Robinson
J. Robert Martin
Indian economists urge higher education spending
In New Delhi a meeting of Indian economists heard that India spends 10 rupees per student per year on education while the United States spends about 300 dollars. D S Kothari lamented that India has the world’s largest illiteracy burden and the lowest research expenditure among major economies.
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New Delhi
India
United States
D. S. Kothari
Kerala Ends Maternity Leave For High Child Count Workers
A India state government announces maternity leaves will be denied to women workers with three or more children as part of a family planning push. Other AP items note France highway crashes inflicting 8,804 deaths and 216,776 injuries in nine months, Red China gifting books to Bengali Academy, Sri Lanka murder rate rising to about two per day, West Pakistan governor criticizing lavish welcoming ceremonies for Ayub Khan, Punjab Education Department ordering rural pupils to kill rats, and Rhodesia tightening rules to charge Gov Humfrey Gibbs about 2,800 dollars monthly for household upkeep starting Jan 1.
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National Education Association
South
NEA
North Carolina
Donald T. Appell
House Committee On Un-American Activities
Alabama
King
Selma
Ala
Civil In Rights
Jimmie Lee Jackson
Marion
James J. Reed
Boston
San Francisco
Buffalo
N.Y
Johnson
U.S. 80
Viola Gregg Luizzo
Detroit
Trovamdri
India
Kerala
Salisbury, Rhodesia
Jan Smith
Britain
Rhodesia
Humphrey Gibbs
Government House
Gibbs
Elizabeth II
Smith
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Eli Brockington
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