Marchers fill Washington to press civil rights act
A vast 200000 pro civil rights demonstrators converge on Washington from across the nation. Leaders including Whitney Young and Martin Luther King Jr press Congress for a strong civil rights bill with FEPC provisions. Police report many fall ill but are treated. crowds chant Freedom and demand equality as organizers say a nationwide wave of demonstrations is needed.
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Whitney Young
National Urban League
Ralph Bunehe
United Nations
America
Constitution Avenue
A. Philip Randolph
John McCarmack
New York
Philadelphia
Chicago
Detroit
Denver
West Coast
Gus Hall
Statler Hilton
Mike Mansfield
Montana
Rudolph
Martin Luther King
Southern Christian Leadership Confermee
Walter Reuther
Afl-Cio
Mansfield
Kennedy
Senate Gop
Everett M. Dirksen
House
Charles A. Halleck
NAACP
Ray Willing
Sesoran Wees Salt
Wilkins Klag Regan Ferward
Dirksen
Miners Trapped as Utah Shaft Fire Sparks Rescue Push
Rescue teams battled carbon monoxide fumes in a Utah mine blast in the badlands as air pockets may have formed, possibly allowing at least nine miners to survive the blaze. Authorities reported ongoing efforts to reach trapped workers and assess conditions in the charred shaft.
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Utah
Utah Badlands
Hatsis
Colorado
Oaly
Matt Kauhala
Bill Pushed to Black Rail Strike
Senate approved measure to arbitrate a United States peacetime rail labor dispute. A three‑member board would decide two core issues with arbitration binding for two years, while other terms remain outside arbitration. Passage followed days of bitter debate and an embargo on freight shipments as a strike began.
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Senate
Aj Sever-Team
Comer Gress
Tabor
Congress
Pensioner leaves library bequest to boost city services
A San Diego pensioner Edwin J. Benjamin left his estate to the city to improve library services. The will, revealed after his Aug 2 death and Aug 3 discovery, names C. M. Metz as sole confidant and describes Benjamin as eccentric yet charitable. Books, first editions, and a Rex Beach manuscript were left to Metz and to a library fund for educational use.
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San Diego
Olf
Yecluse Wita
Mark Twain
Melz
Gary
Kathy
Benjamin
Yeurs Apy
Edwin J. Benjaino
Besnir
Rex Beach
C. M. Metz
Santee
Orators Call for Action on Civil Rights
A civil rights rally features John Lewis of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee urging federal action beyond party lines. Clergy leaders from The United Presbyterian and Amelia Jewish Congress call for end to discrimination, citing constitutional ideals and wartime memory to mobilize support.
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Ival
John Lewis
Aduuvisitarion
Lewis
Eugene Curson Blake
United Presby
Tori Clavel
UBAL
Hee
America
Ion
Thomas Jullerson
Dimehin Prine
Amelia Jewish Congress
Hlows
Ned Garin
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UW. S. Doughty
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Ant Houstnals
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Koe
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American Nazi Party
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Rockwell
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Cir Rights
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United States
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Memorial
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Harley
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de Volons
Metz
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Utah Highway Patrol
Tele-Iblund
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Orlov
Batton
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Winston
Washington March
Rome
Seovision
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Voge
Wilkins
Russ
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