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Biloxi ArrestsNegro SwimmingAt Public Beach**!ly t'nitrd Press InternationalBiloxi, Miss., authorities have arrested a Negro physician on disorderly conduct charges for swimming at an “all-white beach maintained by publicfunds on the Mississippi GulfCoast.The physician. Dr Gilbert Mason, said he and several other Negroes went swimming at the beach Sunday. Officer;-ordered most of the Negroes tc j leave, and placed Mason under arrest. He was released underS25 bond.%Mason is one of several Ne-jgroe* who have filed a petitionasking equal rights for Negroes on the 26-mile beachfront which is publicly open tc whites.Negroes resumed picketing of two Little Rock. Ark., department stores Monday anc the picketing was expected tc 1 spread in the Arkansas capital The picketing is in protes against segregated lunch counon#) lha last Wt*i4
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Albuquerque Journal
Albuquerque, New Mexico, US
Tue, Apr 19, 1960
Page 23
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