Birmingham Bus Station Integration Sparks Large Crowds
In Birmingham on May 19 a racially mixed group of college students faced police lines as they attempted to ride integrated buses to Montgomery. Police with dogs controlled thousands gathered around the station while Greyhound officials offered no comment. The group, supported by Rev. F. L. Shuttlesworth, faced an injunction from Judge Walter B. Jones barring further testing of bus segregation.
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Birmingham
Deep South
Montgomery
Alan
Kennedy
Albert Boutwell
Tennessee
Ala
Greyhound
Tennessee Line
Boutwell
John Patterson
F. L. Shuttlesworth
Eugene Connor
Shuttlesworth
Decora tion at Bethel Church and college commencement near
An annual decoration at Bethel Baptist Church will include lunch and an afternoon singing. Kay Taylor Lee of Decatur is among 112 candidates for Huntington College degrees with events May 28 29, including a baccalaureate sermon by Bishop Paul Hardin and a 10 30 a.m. program in the college chapel.
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Bethel Baptist Church
Kay Taylor Lee
Jay M. Taylor
Decatur
Huntingdon College
Ralph W. Decker
Methodist Board of Education
Nashville
Paul Hardin
First Methodist Church
Hubert Searcy
Americans Are Allowed To Leave Cuba
Fifty two American repatriates from Castro’s Cuba, including the last U.S. newsmen, returned to Miami from imprisonment in Havana. AP’s Robert Berrellez and Harold Milks described jail conditions in La Cabana and G-2 custody, with tearful reunions at Miami International Airport as they left aboard a charter with Cuban refugees.
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Miami
Fla
Castro
Cuba
U. S
Havana
Robert Berrellez
Nogales
Ariz
Associated Press
Grim la Cabana
Harold K. Milks
Associated Press Caribbean Services
Miami International
Berrellez
New York Times
G-2
Intelligence
Ruby Hart Phillips
Milks
Principe
la Cabana
Martin Houseman
United Press International
Deadlock Break Effort Planned In Montgomery
In Montgomery on May 19, House leaders moved to end a filibuster by forming a policy committee plan for a special order calendar to override the journal and advance debate next Tuesday. Senate leaders continued work after breaking a stalemate. The redistricting bill aims to pair Congressman Kenneth Roberts with Albert Rains in a new Alabama district due to the 1960 census, replacing one retiring congressman.
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Montgomery
House
Virgil Ashworth
Senate
Kenneth Roberts
Roberts
Albert Rains
Alabama
Rains
Rob
Decatur Skywatch Sunday May 21 Evening Star and Planets
Weather notes for Decatur show a 7 pm river reading at Kelly Memorial Bridge of 21.74 feet, down 0.03 feet in 12 hours, with a sea level reading of 556.04 feet. Highs reached the mid 80s, with an expected today in the 80s and partly cloudy tonight. Visible objects include Regulus near the Moon and planets Mars Jupiter Saturn Venus in the morning sky.
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Regulus
Mars
Jupiter
Saturn
Venus
Decatur
Tennessee River
Kellyr Memorial Bridge
DOJ’s new legal angle on racial equality and labor strikes
The editorial lauds the Justice Department for its novel approach in challenging racial discrimination and urges action against labor strikes and Hoffa led unions. It cites missile bases, Cape Canaveral, and Patrick bases, noting lost man-days and high pay, and suggests using procurement, Taft Hartley, and anti trust tools to curb union power and ensure national security.
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Washington
Department of Justice
Prince Edward County
Department
United States
Alliance For Total Control of Transportation
James R. Hoffa
Teamsters
International Longshoremen
National Maritime
McClellan
Senate
William Thurman
Air Force
Cape Canaveral
Patrick
Florida
Navy
Army
Armed Services
Bahamas
Hoffa
A.F.L
Teamsters’ Union
Congress
Kennedy Tries to Reach Gov Patterson on Birmingham Tensions
President Kennedy telephoned Lt. Gov. Albert Boutwell after failing to reach Gov. John Patterson. The 15 minute talk reportedly touched on Birmingham race tensions, with both sides keeping details private. Patterson declined to comment on the call.
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Montgomery
Kennedy
Albert Boutwell
John Patterson
Boutwell
White House
Birmingham
Patterson
Ingram
Advertiser
Harry Cook
Cook
U. S
Riders Face An Injunction In Alabama
Circuit Judge Walter B. Jones issued a temporary injunction banning CORE and followers from entering Alabama or riding buses to protest segregation. The order, sought by Attorney General MacDonald Gallion with Gov. Patterson, targets freedom rides and any acts likely to provoke breaches of the peace as a biracial group waited at Birmingham’s bus station after two failed attempts to ride into Montgomery.
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Walter B. Jones
Montgomery
Alabama
MacDonald Gallion
Freedom Riders
Nashville
Shuttlesworth
Birmingham
Congress of Racial Equality
Washington
New Orleans
Ardmore
Tennessee Line
Eugene Connor
John Patterson
CORE
Gallion
Rail Strike Block Set By Kennedy Emergency Board
President Kennedy named an emergency board under the Railway Labor Act to head off a potential railroad strike by the Railroad Yardmasters of America. The move blocks the strike for at least 60 days starting Monday at 6 a.m. local time.
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Washington
Kennedy
America
Summit Met By Welcome MOSCOW
Western diplomats in Moscow welcomed Kennedy and Khrushchev to Vienna talks and a possible summit to ease Cuba tensions. The move follows thawing temps after the Powers spurred by Camp David hopes and a Moscow approved path toward a military respite with the United States.
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Kennedy
Khrushchev
Vienna
Cuba
U.S
Llewelyn Thompson
Washington
Thompson
Siberian
Novosibirsk
Moscow
United States
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North Alabama
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