Word: birminghams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...BIRMINGHAM, Ala., April 8--Cases against 41 Negroes arrested in racial demonstrations were transferred today to federal court after the Negroes declared their civil rights would be violated in a city court trial. City attorneys indicated that a motion to send the cases back to city court would be filed...
...Negro group, the Rev. Fred L. Shuttlesworth, told a news conference that the U.S. attorney general's office had asked for a moratorium on their direct-action fight. Shuttlesworth turned down the request, saying, "Many of us are willing to die, if necessary, on the streets of Birmingham." He stated that the next major step would be a mass hunger strike if all else fails...
...rumor had been stirring up the South for weeks-from Florida baseball training camps to Birmingham bars and Richmond restaurants. The Saturday Evening Post, so the story went, was planning to print "a shocking report" of how former Georgia Football Coach Wally Butts and Alabama Coach Paul ("Bear") Bryant "rigged a game last fall." When the Post finally came out last week, the well-publicized story was tucked away strangely on the back pages, but it was every bit as sensational as billed...
...people anywhere feel the pull of the U.S., but most noticeably in England. Every year 60 science Ph.D.s-about 7% of England's total crop-leave for the U.S. Of ten research students in theoretical physics finishing up doctorates at Cambridge this spring, seven are going to the U.S. Birmingham Chemical Engineer John T. Davies reports that six of his ten researchers left for the U.S. last year. One Glasgow University laboratory team emigrated en masse, and so did five senior aeronautical engineers from Hawker Siddeley's advanced-projects group. Says one Oxford don: "Usually people are so anxious...
...economic powers in the Industrial Piedmont Cities of Charlotte, Greenville, and Greensboro, in the inland trade centers such as Nashville and Jackson, in the port cities of Savannah, Charleston, and New Orleans, in the heavy industry areas at Knoxville, Chattanooga, Birmingham, and Memphis and especially in Atlanta, are seizing control of the civic leadership. Their natural conservatism is tempered by the overwhelming drive for new progress: they constitute a force of moderatism...