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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 31, 1963
Page
3
In Jackson Mississippi a tense civil rights standoff persists as Mayor Thompson vows arrests while NAACP Medgar Evers warns against riot danger. Negroes threaten a Capitol Street boycott amid white business backing police action, with CORE and NAACP organizing nonviolent strategies at state headquarters.
Rev Maurice Dawkins, spokesman for the Los Angeles chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, says Los Angeles will be the Birmingham style target for a total community integration. He notes the city has the largest Black population west of the Mississippi and says a general attack on de facto discrimination in jobs and housing will involve unions. Dawkins plans a meeting with Negro leaders next week to map strategy and timetable.
A minor car fire on Wilbraham Road shortly after midnight damaged the vehicle owned by John Myers. Firefighters extinguished the blaze and estimated damage at $35.
In Batavia Ohio a quarrel during a day outing ends with William Baker shooting his wife Ada and then killing himself. Elmer Baker and wife Alice were in the car outside the home and rushed in after the shots. William Baker died at Mercy Hospital, the sheriff’s deputies reported.
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