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Segregation bills and page boy fired in Columbia
Three segregation bills move through the South Carolina legislature as a 23 year old Senate page boy Raymond L Morton is discharged for a Gamecock article criticizing integration He says the piece was an experiment and plans to publish an explainatory piece The bills include firing NAACP members from state county or local jobs and barring future NAACP employment The page boy incident accompanies bills sent to Governor Timmerman for signature Two bills would let police transfer a Negro child from a white school back to a Negro school to avoid civil disruption.
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Columbia
S.C.P
National Assn
NAACP
South Carolina
Senate
Raymond L. Morton
Gamecock
University of South Carolina
Morton
USC
George Bell Timmerman Jr