Alabama's racial progress across cities and politics
Across Alabama white and Black residents share restaurants and hotels in many cities while biracial committees form in Aniston Decatur and Florence. Dr. King praises recent business calls for equal rights, but warns words must be acted on amidst demonstrations. Governor Wallace touts growth and education as keys to integration.
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Cty of Alabama Medical School
Birmingham
Anniston
Claud Kitchin
States Rights Party
Decatur
Scottsboro
Edwin F. Dalstron
North Alabama
Tuskegee
Macon County
Alabama
Country School Board
Florence
Florence Times
State Chamber of Commerce
Myers
King
Selma Chamber of Commerce
Selmians
Tennessee Valley Authority
Huntsville
Winston County
Mobile
New Orleans
Black Belt
Selma
Montgomery
George C. Wallace
Wallace
Hosiery Workers Rejoin TWUA In AFL-CIO Merger
The American Federation of Hosiery Workers merges with the Textile Workers Union of America rejoining after 17 years. The agreement signed by top officers grants TWU bargaining rights for 6,700 hosiery workers in 39 plants across 13 states and adds 27 Hosiery Federation locals to TWU’s 644 locals.
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New York
American Federation of Hosiery Workers
Textile Workers Union of America
Afl-Cio
Textile
Hosiery Federation
Bible Text Project Aims Global Unified Message
The agency announced a major goal to develop with sister groups in other countries a single text of the Bible to all Christians. The note recalls F. Schoenbein, a German chemist, who discovered a reaction after blowing up his stove while attempting to dissolve cotton in a mixture of nitric and sulphuric acid.
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New York
Dene
Acle
Christian F. Schoenbein
Klan Rally in Dunn Draws 6000 as Murphy Promises Liuzzo Murder Proof
Alabama attorney Matt Murphy Jr. told about 6,000 at a Ku Klux Klan rally in Dunn that he would prove who killed Detroit civil rights worker Viola Liuzzo. He spoke as three men accused in the killing were introduced amid robed marchers and spectators.
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Collie Leroy
Wilkins
W.O. Eaton
Eugene Thomas
Murphy
Johnson
One Dead One Jailed One Hurt After Fight in Murphy
A soldier from Ft Hood is dead, another man wounded in a rifle attack, and a third jailed on an assault charge after an argument among three Murphy men. Pfc George W Tomason 23 was found in the Hiwassee River. Falls 22 is hospitalized with wounds. Brown allegedly shot Falls.
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Murphy
N. C
Ft. Hood
Tex
Cherokee
Claude Anderson
George W. Tomason
Hiwassee River
Morganton
Car Falls
Providence
Anderson
Brown
Falls
Tomason
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TWUA
North Carolina
Dunn
North State Telephone CO
Central Exchange
High Point
Thomasville
Randleman
Daks
Britain
Lowder Supply Co
Thomasville Road
N. Main Ph
S. Main
N. Main
E. Green
Fairfield Plaza
Frai
MIRRO
Alka
Seltzer
Cristan
NEW Bravo
Cee
Stanback
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