NAACP urges boycott over employment barriers in Southeast
The Southeastern NAACP conference urged members to withdraw support from firms that maintain racial employment barriers. A committee led by Rev. M. D. McCollum drafted a statement approved by 300 attendees urging eradicating discrimination and expanding training in schools. The event featured workshops, youth programs, and a Freedoms Award banquet with attorney Donald Holloway speaking. four-day conference to conclude with Clarence Mitchell’s address.
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Greenville
S.C
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
M. D. McCollum
Orangeburg
NAACP
Julie Wright
Summerville
Wright
Springfield Baptist Church
Fayette
Wayne Counties
Tenn
America
Donald Hollowayl
Atlanta
University of Georgia
Clarence Mitchell
Washington
Family Killed in Nash County Auto Crash
A Nash County couple Lerman Hunt 25 Majoree Hunt 25 and their year old daughter died in a head on crash on a rural unpaved road thirteen miles from Rocky Mount. The other driver George Harris 36 of Whitakers was hospitalized with a broken leg and facial lacerations and was reported in good condition. Witnesses said the cars were traveling in the middle of the narrow road five miles from Red Oak.
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Rocky Mount
N.C
Nash County
Lerman Harold Hunt
Majoree Jones Hunt
Rt. 5
George Harris
Wayne Keeter
Red Oak
Six Hurt in Wreck Near Germanton North Carolina
Six persons were injured when a car wrecked near Germanton North Carolina leaving only a half gallon jar of moonshine undamaged. Mrs. Roquille Willard and her son Thomas Willard were in serious condition at Winston Salem hospital, with four other passengers hospitalized. The driver Thomas Willard and his mother were pinned in the car until rescuers freed them.
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Germanton
N.C
Roquille Willard
Rt. 1
Lawsonville
Thomas Willard
Winston-Salem Hospital
Maxine Woods
Pinnacle
Bernie Lewis Collins
Fourteen Arrested in South Carolina Antisegration Protests
The Associated Press reports fourteen people were arrested in Rock Hill and Greenville, South Carolina, as anti segregation demonstrations erupted. A brief fistfight occurred in Rock Hill after police dispersed a mixed-picket line. in Greenville eleven Negro students were jailed and later released on bond for protesting at a city park. The arrests occurred as 300 NAACP leaders met in Greenville to plan further actions.
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Associated Press
South Carolina
Rock Hill
Greenville
Washington, D.C
Baltimore
Cleveland Public Park
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
Paul David Dietrich
Washington
Franklyn Hunt
George Morgan
Dietrich
Hunt
Morgan
W. S. Rhodes
Good and Tollison- Neal
Joan Trumpower
Department of Agriculture
Main Street
Tollison- Neal
Morganton
Maryland
George A. Hickley
Rockville
Winston-Salem
N.C
Wake Forest College
S. H. Kress
College Senior Charged With Childs Death
A 23 year old college senior described as having a fresh open look was charged with second degree manslaughter in the death of her newborn son. The infant was born Wednesday in a rooming house and found in a washing machine the next morning. She appeared in City Court and was released on $2000 bail for arraignment.
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Oneonta
N. Y
Jane Bristol
City Court
Jacob Marn
Dorloo
Here
Marn
Bristol
New York State College of Education
Joseph A. Mogavero Jr
Mogavero
Street Lamp Keeps Romance Flame Alive
In San Jacinto, Millie Ferrett and Kenny Dummer united in a quiet ceremony nine years after meeting under a street lamp. They now live in Woodland Hills with the same lamp, No. 2, preserved by San Jacinto public utilities chief Jack Eckersley as the town updates to mercury vapor lights. The couple values the lamp as a memento of their first meeting despite its old fashioned look.
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Los Angeles
San Jacinto
Millie Ferrett
Kenny Dummer
Dummer
England
Abc-Tv
Woodland Hills
Jack Eckersley
Public Utilities
Here
Eckersley
Kenny
Millie
Merry mixup at Norman civic club meeting
A ladies night at a Norman civic club featured a thinly clad dancing girl, triggering shock and laughter. The program chairman claimed a mixup by the agency supplying the dancer, prompting embarrassment and humorous reaction.
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Norman, Okla
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