Chicago CORE Marches Roil Chicago Suburbs
In Cicero and surrounding Chicago neighborhoods a civil rights march led by CORE drew clashes as white hecklers hurled rocks and bottles while National Guardsmen kept order. About 39 people were arrested and seven injured, including marchers and officers.
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Chicago
Cicero
Robert L. Lucas
Gage Park
Mone’ Crag
Lucas
Congress of Racial Equality
Martin Luther King Jr
$300 Tool Theft at Long Beach Service Station
Police said a 300 dollar theft occurred at Bill's Chevron Station at 300 W Ocean Blvd while the owner and employer assisted Labor Day customers. The missing tools included an impact wrench and an air tool wrench owned by William K. Rapp.
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Long Beach
William K. Rapp
Bill
Chevron
W. Ocean Blvd
White boycott closes Hayneville High School in Alabama
In Lowndes County white pupils stayed away as Hayneville High School faced a total boycott under a federal desegregation order. About 40 to 100 Negro students attended, while Fort Deposit saw whites present elsewhere and a new all-white private school opened at Lawnulesboro drawing away many former Hayneville enrollees.
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Hayneville
Ala
Lowndes County
Hayneville High School
Fort Deposit
Lawnulesboro
NAACP Urges Washington to Stop Bias or Close Florida Peace Corps
NAACP in Key West appeals to Washington officials to end alleged discrimination amid a Florida Peace Corps Micronesia project dispute. Four Micronesians were refused barber shop service prompting calls to either reassure visitors or pull the project from Florida. The group pressured Gov Haydon Burns and officials Wilkins and Vaughn to resolve the issue or relocate the program.
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NAACP
Washington
Florida Peace Corps
Key West
Fla
Istate
Eld
John McColgan
Peace Corps Project
Micronesia
Marvin Davies
Tampa
Roger W. Wilkins
U.S. Community Relations Service
Jack Vaughn
Peace Corps
Haydon Burns
Davies
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Joe Pyne
Ben Hunter
Jack Wells
Wendell Nobel
Myron J. Bennett
Bob Grant
Ron McCoy
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Libby
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Prunes
General Mills Cheerios
Dooley’s Hardware Mart
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