King’s Selma Voting March Spurs National Action
James Marlow reports that King’s Alabama voter drive, starting in Selma, escalated into a national campaign. Police and sheriff actions sparked arrests and mass protests, drawing Johnson’s voting bill push and federal protection for marches to Montgomery. The nationwide response grew as the march expanded with thousands joining.
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Washington
Martin Luther King Jr
Alabama
Kin
Norway
Selma
George Wallace
King
Sheiff
James G. Clark
Clark
Johnson
Marion
Montgomery
Wallace
Massachusetts
Congress
House Eyes Ten Day Recess To Spur Quick Votes
Washington AP The House plans a 10 day recess to speed three major bills education health care and voting rights through before Easter. Senate action aims for floor consideration by April 9 while President Johnson urges rapid passage.
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House
Senate
Mike Mansfield
House Rules Committee
Ways and Means Committee
Judiciary Committee
James C. Eastland
D-Miss
Johnson
Congress
Kansas group to tour Europe in state department program
Six KU Honors Acting students plus instructor Dr. Gordon Beck will depart next month for an eight country two month Eastern European Exchange Theater tour. They will perform scenes from Moliere and Pirandello, do improv, present American musicals, and visit Madrid Rome Prague and other capitals as guests of Theater Academy and International Theater Institute. Six Yugoslav students and their instructor are already visiting KU.
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State Department
Gordon Beck
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Spain
Rome
Trieste
Italy
Zagreb
Yugoslavia
Warsaw
Poland
Vienna
Austria
Paris
London
Czechoslovakia
Prague
Capital
Bratislava
Moliere
Theater Academy
Woodstock trip notes from Independence visit
Mrs Harry Wellman spent last week with Mr and Mrs Robert Scovel and family in Independence. Mr and Mrs James Green and Wayne of Kansas City accompanied them.
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Harry Wellman
Robert Scovel
Independence
James Green
Wayne
Kansas City
Community Notes and Local Socials Highlight Weekend
Residents mingled at gatherings with Mr and Mrs Leo Hollingsworth and Mrs Florence Hollingsworth hosting Neighbor hood Circle. Bingo winners were Mildred Petrie Ruby Champion and Sheila Ridgway. The McLouth PTA met at the grade school and the EUB Church youth choir led a devotional. Officers elected for 1965 1966 include President Maxine Voelker and Treasurer Helen Sample. Next meeting April 6 features the Methodist Church junior choir.
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Leo Hollingsworth
Robert Williams
Tonganoxie
Richard Lewis
Dick Lobb
Robert Davison
Florence Hollingsworth
Mildred Petrie
Ruby Champion
Sheila Ridgway
Bess Davision
Evan Dalaba
Linwood
Allan Willetts
McLouth Pta
EUB Church
James Gregg
Maxine Voelker
Ruby Harwood
Shirley Wolbride
Helen Sample
Methodist Church
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Shawnee Mission
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Martin Jos
the City Commission
Lawrence Schools
University of Kansas
Pol. Adv
Sears
Avicron
Woodstock
ACME
Meneit
Veronica
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Round Corner Drug CO
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