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Under foreboding New England skies, a busload of soccer players set off yesterday morning for Ithaca, New York. The Crimson "international" opens today its eighth season of Ivy League play against Cornell...

Author: By Jonathan D. Trobe, | Title: Booters Oppose Cornell In Ivy Opener at Ithaca | 10/6/1962 | See Source »

...busload of Negroes leaves the depot in New Orleans and heads North, but the city's Negro problem stays behind. The White Citizens who pay for the migration must know that they are shaking their fists in the winds of change; and they must know, too, that no other gesture could so clearly express the real state of the white man's conscience in the South. The rest of the South is already finding it hard to ignore this circus of shame, these "Freedom Rides...

Author: By Joseph L. Featherstone, | Title: 'Freedom Rides' | 5/18/1962 | See Source »

Checking a list of available shelters, Red Cross officials decided on the Holy Cross Lutheran Church, two miles away from the fire scene in an allwhite, lower-middle-income neighborhood that has long feared and fought encroachment by Chicago's growing Negro population. As the first busload of Negroes arrived outside the church, a handful of white teen-agers began to chant: "Nigger, nigger, nigger-go back to your neighborhood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Illinois: Nigger, Go Home | 7/7/1961 | See Source »

...degree at Howard University, but was never ordained. Instead, he went to work for such "social-action causes" as Fellowship of Reconciliation and the N.A.A.C.P. He studied the life of Gandhi, began applying the techniques of nonviolent protest to the situation of U.S.mNegroes. Farmer planned and directed the first busload of Freedom Riders. Married to a white girl, he idealistically aims for more than an end to legal barriers against Negroes: "We want a society of friends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: FOUR FREEDOM RIDERS | 6/2/1961 | See Source »

...least a busload of Muslims attend most of Malcolm X's college speaking engagements. For the most part, they seem unwilling to answer an outsider's questions ("you will have to ask our leader"), hesitant to discuss their own relationship to the movement, and anxious to complain of their treatment in the White press ("our arguments are too new for them," said one man; "when we are maligned so often, it has to be deliberate," said another...

Author: By Paul S. Cowan, | Title: Malcolm X Demands States for Negroes, Calls Token Integration 'Mere Pacifier' | 3/25/1961 | See Source »

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