Word: birminghams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Parliament, and the BBC has only just hired its first Negro reporter; but 40% of the interns, orderlies and nonprofessional workers in Britain's hospitals are colored, 17% of the nurses' aides, and from 20% to 40% of the bus and underground employees in London and Birmingham. On the plus side, West Indian cricket stars have played in English professional leagues, while the fad for American-style (and Negro-based) rock 'n' roll has helped make sultry Shirley Bassey, daughter of an English mother and a Jamaican father, one of the top two or three British...
...PUBLIC ACCOMMODATIONS. Compliance with the new public-accommodations law, which took effect last summer, has been good, on the whole. Negroes are received at restaurants and hotels even in such notorious centers of segregation as McComb, Miss., Birmingham, Ala., and Albany, Ga. There have been some violent cases of defiance: in Mississippi one Negro was beaten when he tried to eat at a lunch counter; another was shot when he patronized a theater. Often Negroes are served grudgingly, but sometimes they get "brown-skin service," meaning they are received with such elaborate courtesy that they are actually embarrassed. In many...
...probable reasons for the Attorney General's sweeping statement is Gary Thomas Rowe Jr., an Alabamian who has lived his 34 years in Birmingham. Rowe is a stocky, reddish-haired man remembered by acquaintances as a job-to-job drifter, working at various times in a dairy, in a novelty store, behind a bar, as an ambulance driver, and in a meat-packing plant, where he froze several toes. To Birmingham cops, he was a sometime squealer in bootleg cases. And to his fellow Ku Klux Klansmen, he was a colleague who liked to talk-without ever getting very...
...specifics of what Rowe told the grand jury were not made public. But in general he told how after the march from Selma to Montgomery was over, three Klansmen left Birmingham looking for excitement. Considering Rowe one of their own, they let him go along. Before they left, according to Rowe, he called his FBI contact...
William White '65, secretary of the Harvard Gles Club, has circulated a letter explaining the actions of Archie Epps, assistant dean of the College, and Elliot Forbes '40, Fanny Peabody Professor of Music, in the recent discrimination incident in Birmingham...