Word: boycotters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Weaver and his companion, Edward Hollander of Baltimore, were arrested Feb. 7 for "conspiring to intimidate a family" in connection with a SNCC-organized boycott in Canton, Miss. Over a dozen other Canton civil rights workers jailed last month for distributing leaflets were also released...
...years on the bench, Johnson has handed down numerous civil rights rulings that angered, or at least annoyed, many white Alabamians. In 1956, as a member of a three-judge panel, he held that segregation on Montgomery buses was unconstitutional-a decision that meant victory for the historic bus boycott led by Martin Luther King Jr. In 1959, Johnson ruled that segregation in public parks in Montgomery violated the Constitution. In 1961, he ordered Macon County voter-registration authorities to permit Negroes to register under precisely the same standards that the county applied to whites...
Since last summer, Judge Johnson has been involved with the school desegregation struggle in Macon County. He ordered a dozen Negro students admitted to all-white Tuskegee High School last September; but segregationists organized a boycott, and a private school was set up for the white students. In January, Alabama's Governor George C. Wallace had Tuskegee High closed down as uneconomical-there were 13 teachers for twelve pupils. Judge Johnson promptly assigned the Negro students to the county's other two white high schools-six to each. One school capitulated, but at Macon County High in Notasulga...
Parks said there was a "good chance" that the school boycott scheduled for Feb. 26 would be cancelled if the School Committee agreed to the integration plan that the NAACP will propose Wednesday...
...sponsoring Gov. Wallace's speech at Harvard, based his campaign on his record since taking office, on his "strong leadership," and on the guest speakers he has scheduled for this spring, including Roy Wilkins of the NAACP, who will speak on February 26, the day of the Boston school boycott...