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Five Negro ministers, the owner of an insurance and real ty company and a partner in a public relations firm were ar rested on charges of congregat ing on the sidewalk in front of the KW Cafeteria last night. The arrests were the high point in anti-segregation dem onstrations here beginning at 6 p.m. and continuing at intervals until 10:30 p.m. The seven were turned away by employee of the cafeteria who asked why they didn’t go “where you are welcome.” Seconds before police led the seven men away, Hubert Revis, 33, an employe of the KW, lunged through the doorway where the men stood and shoved Rev. B. Elton Cox, field secretary for the Congress of Racial Equality. Cox charged Revis with as sault. Trial in the assault case as well as in the cases of con gregating on the sidewalk was set Oct. 4. Others arrested in front of the cafeteria were T. R. Mc Rae, owner and operator of McRae Insurance and Realty Co.; Rev. George L. Brown, pastor of First Baptist Church; Rev. William Emory Kearns, 59, assistant pastor of St. Steph ens AME Zion Church; Rev. S. A. Speight, Presiding Elder at St. Stephen's; Rev. Edgar Franklin Jones, pastor of St. Stephens, and a member of the mayor's Biracial Committee; and Robert J. Brown of BC Associates. At 6 p.m. a dozen pickets ar rived at the AW Drive-In on N. Main Street where they marched back and forth along the sidewalk in front of the es tablishment for about an hour. Police said there were no inci dents. The final anti-segregation demonstration came at 9:25 p. m. Some 210 Negroes marched from the First Baptist Church on Washington Drive, through the downtown area, and final ly gathered around the City- County Building to sing free dom songs. There were no incidents along the route of the march which ended shortly after 10 p.m. police said.
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High Point Enterprise
High Point, North Carolina, US
Sun, Sep 08, 1963
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