Word: birminghams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Negroes' goals are not in reach of court decisions any longer." It Could Happen Anywhere. Birmingham therefore set off a chain reaction-uncontrolled. New lunch-counter sit-ins started in Atlanta, Nashville and Raleigh. The N.A.A.C.P. called for peaceful sympathy demonstrations in 100 cities. Jackie Robinson, now a vice president of Chock Full O' Nuts, said he would go to Birmingham to join in the Negro protest. So did Floyd Patterson. Communism was having a field day. Gloated Radio Moscow: "We have the impression that American authorities both cannot and do not wish to stop outrages by racists...
...stretch of the imagination, a Negro leader. He tries no civil rights cases in the courts, preaches from no pulpit, devises no stratagems for sit-ins, Freedom Riders or street marchers. He published an essay in 1959 called Nobody Knows My Name, and four years later, in Birmingham and Harlem, and in all the Birminghams and Harlems in the nation and the world, most Negroes still do not know his name. He is a nervous, slight, almost fragile figure, filled with frets and fears. He is effeminate in manner, drinks considerably, smokes cigarettes in chains, and he often loses...
...said the telegram to the President from Birmingham News Publisher Clarence B. Hanson Jr., "to use the influence of your office to end this open law violation and provocation [by Negroes]." All well and good. But how has the News used its influence since segregation tensions began mounting last month? By burying most stories of the situation on its inside pages. Last week, after more than 2.000 rock-throwing Negroes clashed with hundreds of Alabama firemen, policemen and highway patrolmen in the worst melee of all, the News at last found room on Page One for a riot story...
...vernal urge for lingerie led marauding Brown University students to congeneric Pembroke College. Said Dean Rosemary Pierell: "It's the first time in 16 years that a horde of Brown men has managed to reach the upper floors of a Pembroke dormitory." It took Providence police with Birmingham-type dogs to quell the brouhaha elsewhere in town. Eight Brown rioters were arrested, but the chief injuries were sustained by two policemen and a bystander. One cop was hit with a rock and the other suffered the unkindest cut of all: he was bitten...
...BIRMINGHAM, Ala., May 16--Tension eased in this racially disturbed steel city today as business life in the downtown district appeared to be returning to normal. Although there were reports of a white boycott, a spot check of some of the downtown department stores showed business was running from good to subnormal...