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Student volunteers will conduct an adult literacy campaign this summer in Selma, Ala., in the heart of the southern "black belt." The immediate aim of the project is alleviation of widespread functional illiteracy, but the ultimate purpose is to make more Negroes qualified to vote...
...that limpid voice or by some secret of cadence, exercises control as can few others over his audiences, black or white. He has proved this ability on countless occasions, ranging from the Negroes' huge summer March on Washington to a little meeting one recent Friday night in Gadsden, Ala. There, the exchange went like this...
Montgomery. The first big test of King's philosophy-or of his operating technique-came in 1955, after he had married a talented young soprano named Coretta Scott and accepted the pastorate of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Ala...
Education's story about Miles, the struggling Negro college, in Birmingham, Ala. (TIME, Nov. 8), brought forth such an outpouring. A lady in New Haven sent $500. Other checks and letters of sympathy and encouragement came from all over-even from Birmingham itself. But the article elicited an even deeper response. Before Miles can win college accreditation, it needs a new science building, and more Ph.D.s on its faculty...
Hearings by the Daddario subcommittee, and by a select committee under Rep. Carl Elliott (D-Ala.), are looking into the whole range of federal research programs in the light of the steady increase in their size and cost. Last month the House voted to slash the Administration's request for a sizable increase in the appropriation for the National Science Foundation. Ludget requests for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the National Institutes of Health have also come under heavy attack in Congress...