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Moving on to Boston University, King gained a doctorate and a bride, Antioch College Graduate Coretta Scott, and in 1954 took his first pastorate in Montgomery, Ala. There in 1955, a seamstress' tired feet precipitated the first great civil rights test of power and launched King's galvanic career. Mrs. Rosa Parks's arrest for re fusing to give her seat on a town bus to a white man ended 382 days later with capitulation of the Montgomery bus line to a comprehensive Negro consortium and the U.S. Supreme Court. King, too new to Montgomery to have...
...DURING freshman year I was isolated and pretty much stuck to my courses and tried to get along with them. As far as social life, I had a girlfriend from Antioch who happened to be in Providence and that took care of that. I spent every weekend in Providence...
...President Harold Case, learning some of the subtleties of running 15 schools within the university-a handy foretaste, in miniature, of his S.U.N.Y. job. Eventually he decided that he did not want to "always be a No. 2 man," and in 1954 accepted the presidency of Ohio's Antioch College...
Formal in Underwear. Gould found his five years as head of Antioch "a wearying experience." He endeared himself to the faculty by defending an art instructor accused by McCarthy-era congressional investigators of Communist ties, and by fighting against loyalty oaths required for federal
Cincinnati's antiwarriors conducted their draft drama with a bit more panache. Sporting marigolds and sparking mischief, a group of 50-mostly students from nearby Antioch College-gathered in front of the main post office to protest the impending induction of James R. Wessner, 22, grandson-in-law of Cleveland Industrialist and Russophile Cyrus Eaton. Wessner was clad in a black Halloween "death" costume and toted a scythe-a grim tableau that found an almost exact duplicate in Des Moines. Nine young men turned in their draft cards in Cincinnati, after dipping them in a cup full of blood...