Indicted Murder Trial Looms In Till Case In Mississippi
In Mississippi two white men Roy Bryant 24 and J W Milam 35 pleaded innocent after being reindicted by an all white grand jury on charges of kidnapping and murdering 14 year old Emmett Louis Till allegedly whistling at a woman in Money community. Trial expected within three weeks as court convenes. If convicted they face possible death sentence with minimum imprisonment. NAACP lawyer warns of $20000 damages if death is not pursued and Till’s body recovered from the Tallahatchie River last week was found after his visit with his uncle.
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Tallahare County
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Chicago
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Scattered Integrated Schools Open In South
Integrated public schools begin term in scattered Southern areas with access for Negro and white students. Florida bases MacDill Eglin and Tyndall open integrated schools. Oak Ridge Tennessee enrolls about 45 Negroes in high school and 50 in junior high. Ashland Kentucky and Birmingham Alabama also see integration progress. Texas communities report mixed enrollment across several districts.
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Tenn
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Rogersville
Tennessee
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Oak Ridge High
Fred Brown
Ashland
Board of Education
Birmingham
Ala
H. H. Grooms
University of Alabama
Texas
Big Spring
Austin
Bexar County
San Antonio
Black couple from New York to move into all white Southern Pines
A Black couple from New York state will move into a house in an all white section of Southern Pines after Sept 15 if no one offers $20,000 for the home by then. Mr and Mrs Martin L White agreed to a $12,000 purchase. lawyer W D Sabiston and Henry L Graves noted the plan amid threats to the Whites.
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New York State
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Kenwood
Jamaica
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Louise Way Spence
Graves
White
Monroe
New York City
Toledo
Ohio
Spence
Sabiston
Mean Boys Wreck Carondelet Baptist Church
Five boys aged 8 to 12 admitted smashing the interior of Carondelet Baptist Church in South St Louis during a Labor Day picnic. They damaged religious pictures, walls, furniture, and flooded the basement, causing about $3000 in damage. Names were withheld and they were given to their parents pending a Juvenile Court hearing.
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Carondelet Baptist Church
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