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Newspaper
Las Vegas Sun
Location
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1964
Page
3
Thousands of Negro students continued a costly boycott of Florida schools citing inadequate and overcrowded conditions. Attendance dropped sharply with about 10,000 of 31,000 students absent, far above typical levels.
Rutledge Pearson, NAACP state president and teacher, was summoned by the Duval County school trustees to discuss his role in the boycott. His appearance was postponed to allow time to obtain a lawyer. Officials cite funding losses from pupil absences and note the county’s schools recently lost accreditation due to financing issues.
An attorney said contributions are coming from other states to fund a defense for 21 white men charged in the slaying of three civil rights workers in Neshoba County. A public subscription drive is planned as officials weigh probable cause at a preliminary hearing set tomorrow in Philadelphia.
Freeman pauses at the REA office in St. Louis prior to an air trip to Washington. The scene captures a brief moment during travel with a UPS Telephoto tag noted.
A SAC B-58 bomber carrying an unarmed nuclear weapon caught fire while taxing at Bunker Hill Air Force Base. Three crew members were injured and taken to the base hospital. no radiation or nuclear explosion danger was found. A board of officers investigates the incident.
Dr Martin Luther King Jr arrived in Oslo with a 26 member entourage to receive the Nobel Peace Prize worth 55 600 dollars. He praised Scandinavian democratic socialist traditions and urged American unity in the civil rights struggle while addressing FBI arrests in Mississippi and the 1964 three workers killings. He was met by Nobel Committee chairman Gunnar Jahn and others.
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