Racial tension flares in Mississippi towns signaling boycotts
In Tupelo Okolona and Lexington racial unrest grows as black boycotts target white merchants. Arrests include 12 pickets four nuns with disorderly conduct charges. Klansmen reveal identities at rallies as violence and protests intensify amid demands for affirmative action hiring.
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Jackson, Miss
Mississippi
Ku Klux Klan
New South
Alfred
Skip
Lexington
Tupelo
House
Joseph Brunini
Jackson
Okolona
Local Servicemen Begin Training and Emerge with Honors
Frederick County resident Richard G. Didawick begins Army Basic Training at Fort Dix NJ after a 1978 James Wood High School graduate. Donn A. Frazier departs to Fort Knox for Army basic training as a three year enlistee in the 1st Cavalry Division with aviation training at Fort Rucker. Randall W. Hartley graduates with honors from Sheppard AFB TX as a missile officer and heads to Davis Monthan AFB AZ for SAC duty. Charles S. Darr Jr. is promoted to Specialist Four with the 3rd Armored Division in Geinhausen Germany after enlisting last year.
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Frederick County
Richard G. Didawick
Harrison Shirley
Fort Dix
Didawick
James Wood High School
Army
Nichols Discount Center
Frazier
Clarke County High School
U.S. Army
Cav
Fort Hood
Texas
Fort Rucker
Ala
Randall W Hartley
Charles L. Hartley
Front Royal
Sheppard Afb
Tex
U. S. Air Force
Hartley
Davis-Monthan Afb
Ariz
Strategic Air Command
Warren County High School
Virginia Military Institute
Reserve Officers Training Corps
Charles S. Darr Jr
Shirley F. Darr
Stephens City
3Rd Armored Division
Geinhausen
Germany
Darr
Berryville
Charles S. Dart Sr
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Fire Department
Bill Howard
Caroline Kennedy
San Antonio
Donn A. Frazier
Paul C. and
Marilyn Frazier
Fort Knox
Kentucky
Call the Stars
Middletown
Sears
Iter
Ars
Scotchgard
Seatchgard
Kenmore
Value Kenmore
Loudoun ST
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