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...applicants is made up of members and supporters of the virtually all-Negro Freedom Democratic Party (FDP). The other consists mainly of representatives from college Young Democratic clubs in the state who are supported by the Mississippi Democratic Conference (MDC)--a bi-racial coalition of NAACP, organized labor (AFL-CIO), and white moderates who fear...
...will insist, on the other hand, that whites who would not join the virtually all-Negro FDP group will not join the integrated MDC group either. And right now it is probably true that even the more moderate faction would fail to attract the kind of white support that provides eager campaign help...
...provision for 14 elections on a ward basis was similarly designed to insure that some white councilmen would be elected. In a city nearly 60 per cent Negro, it was feared, at large elections would produce an all-Negro council...
...uneventful enrollment of four Negro pupils. In Philadelphia, Miss., where three civil rights workers were slain a year ago, nine Negroes attended the Neshoba County schools. When a white boy threw a pop bottle at a Negro girl, Principal Prentice Copeland promptly paddled the troublemaker's bottom, put him on probation and made him apologize. Despite taut racial tensions in Bogalusa, La., where violence occurred recently, hesitant Negro children followed their determined mothers into once all-white schools as police held off spectators. In Gainesboro, Tenn., Peggy Williams, 13, not only became the first Negro in the town...
...hand at organizing nonviolent demonstrations. But he isn't quite so skilled at dispersing them-at least when they happen in his own church. Last week, for the second Sunday in a row, Cincinnati police were called out because of disorders during the services at Shuttlesworth's all-Negro Revelation Baptist Church. The troublemakers were not marauding whites, but a "Freedom Committee" of dissident church members who object to Shuttlesworth's "dictatorial" ways...