Medgar Evers death shocks Jackson and nation
Medgar W. Evers, Mississippi NAACP field secretary, was shot in the back and died at a Jackson hospital. The Associated Press notes the murder heightens civil rights tensions with potential for stronger Negro drives, white counterreaction, and strained interracial communications across the South.
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Jackson
Mississippi
Medgar W. Evers
Associated Press
Relman Morin
Evers
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
United States
Arthur L. Johnson
Detroit
NAACP
Medgar
Louis Eckl
Florence
Ala
Today in History highlights and notable anniversaries
On this date 1776 Congress appointed John Adams Roger Sherman Benjamin Harrison James Wilson and John Rutledge as Board of War commissioners. Other notes: 1876 birth of Winfield Scott, 1917 Pershing and staff reach Paris, 1927 flag raised at Statue of Liberty for Lindbergh, Ruth honored in 1948, 1956 Army adopts official flags, church merger talks, Geneva nuclear talks, Krushchev-Kennedy coalition government message, thoughts of Epicurus on dining with others.
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Congress
John Adams
Roger Slerman
Benjamin Harrison
James Wilson
John Rutledge
Board of War
War Department
U.S. Army
Winfield Scott
Petersburg
John. J. Pershing
Paris
Charles ‘A. Lindbergh
Atlantic
Bab Ruth
United Presbyterian Church
General Assembly
United States
Union
Geneva
Krushchev
Kennedy
Laos
A&P Names New Area Manager
William Lewis named area manager of A and P store operations in Kansas City region by H Wayne Carver president of A and P's Middle Western division. Lewis from Chicago where he was general superintendent in A and P Chicago operations. Born in Quinter he joined A and P as a Chicago store manager in 1925.
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William Lewis
A&p
H. Wayne Carver
Lewis
Kansas City
Chicago
Kansas
Missouri
Town
Quinter
Galaxon Promises Fat Loss In Seven Days
An advertisement for Galaxon claims rapid fat loss without exercise or drastic dieting. The tablet supposedly suppresses appetite allowing continued meals, backed by a money back guarantee and price of $3.00 from Kaiser Drug Store at 4208 Main with mail order service.
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Kaiser Drug Store
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Dixie
Vicksburg
By Relman Morin
the Herald
Tremist
Muhammed Elijah
Pheenix, Ariz
Birmingham
Renner Ori
Ienwa Eisso
Vivian Malone
University of Alabama
Tuscaloosa
Denny Chimes
Baltimore
Washington
Richmond
Virginia
Elizabeth Cit
Y. Carolina
Miles
Jocatts
Cambridge
Louisiana
THE
Epicurus
Greece
John.g. Kaiser
Pepsi-Cola Company
Pepsi-Cola Bottling Company
New York
Pepsi-Cola
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