Dixie Negro Woman Fined on Segregation Ordinance
Montgomery Alabama police court fined Rosa Parks seamstress ten dollars and costs for violating segregation on city buses. Officials report thousands of Negroes used buses daily and mass meetings planned to discuss economic reprisal against Montgomery City Lines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montgomery
Ala
Buges
Amy Bagley
Rosa Parks
al Montgomery
I'red
Wationsl Assn
NAACP
E. D. Nixon
Clyde Sellers
Holt St. Baptist Church
Lic
Rosa Parks Arrest Sparks Bus Boycott Call
Rosa Parks was arrested Thursday by bus driver J F Blake after she refused to move from the white section to the Negro section in the rear of the bus. Circulars distributed Saturday urged a boycott and promised further instructions at tonight mass meeting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rosa Parks
J. F. Blake
Westinghouse Plant Entrance Hampered by Damaged Cars
In Columbus Ohio deputies reported three seats damaged as a convoy blocked entry to the Westinghouse Electric Corp plant. About 635 workers returned to duty while union leader T J Fitzpatrick denied any effort to block access, noting cars cruised the arena and brought coffee to pickets with no incidents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
Ohio
Westinghouse Electric Corp
Sheriff's Ofice
T. J. Fitzpatrick
Tdg
CIO International Union
Westinghouse
Freezing Cold Grips North Border Region
A powerful early winter storm slammed the northern border region with as much as 16 inches of snow across Nebraska Kansas the Dakotas Minnesota and Wisconsin. Temperatures plunged below zero while winds gusted. Minnesota North Dakota and neighboring states posted record lows as Florida and Gulf Coast stayed around 60s. The freezing line stretched from eastern Ohio to northern Arkansas Texas Panhandle and southern New Mexico before bending toward Nevada and the Pacific Northwest with light snow in the midwest and rain in New England and southern California.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Plains
Prairie
Canada
Nebraska
Kansas
Dakotas
Minesota
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Fraser
Cole
Presi
Dent Eisenhower
North Dakota
Gopher
International Falls
Alexandria —S
Grand Forks
Bismarck
Florida J
Gulf Coast
Ohio
Arkansas
Texas Panhandle
New Mexico
Nevada
Pacific Northwest
Lower Midwest
New England
Caliornia
Volant Dies in Shack With TV No Heat
An autopsy will determine cause of death for 4 month old Maria Leticia Rodriguez found in a Sunnyvale shack that housed a television but no heat. Deputies said the shack was an ice box with a small gas stove as the only heat source. The baby had coughed for weeks and could not be revived despite help from Sunnyvale Public Safety.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Jose
George Hannah
Maria’ Leticia Rodriguiz
Salvadore Rodriguez
Sunnyvale
Herbert Dallas
Santa Clara
Algeria massacre near Tunisian border shocks nation
A violent assault in a village near the Tunisian border left at least 40 killed and nine more dead, as rebels fought French and police forces in the market. Wires were cut and the village of Lemy isolated, marking the worst single incident in months amid ongoing guerrilla warfare and assassinations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Het Place
Algeria
Alwas
Lemy
al- Algyers
Also Mentioned on This Page
Marine Corps
Weymouth Naval Air Station
Weymouth
Mass
Dixie
Ted W. Brown
Dapres
Sgt
Park
Steg
Arthur Murray
Fifth Street
Long Beach
Long
Beach Blvd
Compton
Freezing Cold
North Border Region
Ated Presi
Volant
Shack
Milton Grinberg
Harold
Wachman Optomerists
Columbia
Warner
Sowrtowy Lone Macy
Aven
Ueer
Mojnd
Joy Stevens
Pacific Long Beach
Downtown
Nuway Shoe Repairing
Pine Avenue
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!