Alabama Democrats Face Court Test in Selma Sheriff Race
In Selma Alabama the Dallas County Democratic Executive Committee sought a court ruling over disputed ballots in the May sheriff race where Baker led Clark and other opponents. The committee threw out about 1 400 ballots amid concerns of tampering while the Justice Department FBI and city police pursued a gunman in a separate Voting Rights Act case.
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Carmichael Named SNCC Chief in Move Toward Independent Politics
Stokely Carmichael 24 replaces John Lewis as SNCC chairman in Atlanta. Reported plan to intensify efforts in independent Black politics and transport facilities in the Deep South. Carmichael is a Howard University graduate and one of the original Freedom Riders.
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John Lewis
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Nurses Near Resignation Deadline in New York
The city’s 21 municipal hospitals faced a looming May 23 nurse resignation deadline as 1,480 nurses threatened to quit. Emergency rooms stretched to handle up to 160 tuberculosis patients from Bronx Municipal Hospital Center while upstate hospitals paused admissions to reduce caseloads. Mediator George Moskowitz was expected to present settlement recommendations today, with the city prepared to accept them and the union awaiting details.
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Man Held in Killing Of Socialist In Detroit
A former taxi driver Edward Wan iolek 40 Detroit is jailed after the fatal shooting of Leo Bernard 28 and wounding of Jan Edward Garrett 22 and Walter Graham 19 in the Socialist Workers party office in downtown Detroit Police said he vowed to start shooting Communists two months earlier and would seek a murder warrant Garrett and Graham both Wayne State University students were shot four times Waniolek surrendered in a library after telling his wife to wait while he killed Communists The two injured students were hospitalized Garrett crawled to a phone and reported he had been shot Waniolek was found with a rifle and pistol but offered no resistance during arrest at the library The incident prompted police to note a link to a South Africa consulate visit and a six page letter claiming rifles in Detroit The assailant identified by Garrett and Graham from a photo PID Scene at Eugine V Debs Hall in Detroit was named for a socialist candidate and the victims included a leftist activist and students
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