Negroes Demand Equality and Jobs Across the Nation
Questioned by a speaker, the crowd outside a restaurant recalls last week when a white man offered wood as the issue. The Negro seeks the vote and equal dining and lodging rights, while facing rising unemployment and poverty. Detroit shows 20 percent black population and 60 percent of the unemployed, many youths ages 16 to 21.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detroit
Young
Englewood
Montclair
Morristown
Plainfield
New Jersey
New York
Atty
C. Barnam Mace
Cambridge
Richardson
Cambridge Crisis Shows Race Tension and Integration Struggles
The Cambridge episode traces how peaceful desegregation efforts turned violent amid protests and arson in June 1963. A biracial push led to restaurant desegregation but white resistance and riots hardened attitudes, illustrating the national demand for tangible progress in civil rights.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maurice Rimpo
Cambridge
Ford Legacy and Willow Run Bomber Plant Highlight Era
The piece notes Henry Ford II reorganizing Ford Motor Company under Robert McNamara after the Willow Run bomber plant’s mass production. It recalls Ford senior’s one man rule, his era of power, and his later semi retirement with his grandsons and family involvement shaping postwar leadership.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Willow Run
Michigan
Ford
Oper
Henry II
Benson Ford
California
Ford Senior
Henry Ford II
Company
High Command
Robert S. McNamara
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John C. Butler, R. Ph
Somerville Rd
Maryland
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Gloria Richardson
National Guard
Bayonet Point
Kennedy
Morsell
Clark
FRIES
Small Business Administration
Falkville
Alabama
Gray’s Body Shop
First Avenue
Second Street
Atlanta
Fairlie Street
N. W
Atlanta 3
Georgia
Volkswagen
ROY Payne Motors, Inc
Hwy
Decatur
Richard Haygood
Buddy
Roy Payne
Joe Young
Jimmy Holt
Bobby James
Karmann Ghias
N.A.D
DIAL
Decatur, Ala
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