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Salt March to SeaCivil Rights March Draws ParallelBy JAMES MARLOW Associated Press News AnalystWASHINGTON rtrwd is bigger,civil rightspose as .Mohandas Gam forgettable salt march- Thewalk short-s massive in Washing-symholic pur-Gandhi’s unto the241 miles to to inspire his British rule to a British law which made it a crime tor any Indian to have salt he hadn't paid tax on. By the time he reached the sea thousands of Indians had joined him.Then on the beach he pickedwithdrew. It was India's I of Indians wade the water themselves to sa!they were faTup^They grtthefr:h here will cover no a mile between the nd theLincoln Memorial but perhaps 100,000 people, white and Ne-will lake part.gro.It will be notice in a giganticthe injustice of discrimina-infJicted on icriran history. More in y it is no-that justice could be obtained by But mil-nan - violent means, lions listened when he preaclied It and tried to practice it, not always successfully. There bioodIn this country, the Rev. Martin Luther King dr., a discipleuade them threateningleadership is various groups for the marchmarch isbe credited to the inspiration of a single individual. It has deep roots, watered for centuries oy White Americans who hugged their racial prejudice and for much of American history exploited Negroes.It ha* b*«n only in nine years that learned they could treatment and the anteed them only rect and collectiveThe Supreme CourtL-eatment back by more thin half fi century when, in 1BK. it ruled it was constitutional to segregate Negroes so long as they got equal treatment, thiswas a contradiction in itself. Segregation by its very nature meant inequality.Yet. as early as 1917 the court began undoing what it had done in 1P96. It outlawed a l/juisvlile which established icsro residential dis-by bit over the foil the court banned of segregation in by the National r the Advancement of People.But it wasn't until May 17. 19*4. when It banned public schcol segregation, that the court threw out entirely the 1896 opinion by declaring that segregation was unconstitutional.YMBT'EB.TmA RBIn the Twin Cities and Lewis County10 Year* AgoAug. 26, 1953Mrs. J. L. Clements. Chchalls, president of the Lewis County Women’s Republican club announced today Congressman Russell V. Mack will speak following a C: 30 o’clock polluck dinner at Fort Bcrsl park. Mrs. Clements said Lewis County’s legislative team, will also be guests, as will Lloyd Owen, Che-halis. Lewis County GOP centra! committee chairman.Thursday evening, fair princess Kathryn Carrol, of Adna was honored at a party at the Adna Grange Hall. A solo wasSecretary of State John Foster Dulles that he had received the Fulbrighl award. Transportation, es and Schultz’scnance expensesof Gandhi and widely known Ik-eachcd non grucs have not and sometimes lence with violHUM, WUS i a gift : Grange and the Itree.of itdiscrimination is Indians loved Gandhi so widely and becauseSchultz, son of Mr. Mrs. Otto Schullz, Ccn-, left Monday for DeUnokl. any, to begin a year's in piano at th til music academy ight scholarship, notified last month by600 Onalaska students will return to their desks to be-gin their studies for the coning year on Sept. 6. James Blake, who succeeds C. H. Se-e Onalaska ind W. F. Bailor, grade school principal, announced this week.H. H. Hurd. T/wis County superintendent. today called a special election in the Winlock ard Veness school districts to vote on consolidation. The issue hasinatdtdtw.w»viously. but ha the Yeness district by asbarTwo small fires in Lewis County were reported at Chehalis today by District Fire Warden » J. Famish. A fire In sec-wlhbrush covering it'
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Centralia Daily Chronicle
Centralia, Washington, US
Mon, Aug 26, 1963
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