Word: charleston
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Southern and border states, 147 school districts were ready to integrate their facilities for the first time. At most places, everything went well. In Charleston, S.C., Millicent Brown, 15, one of two Negro children admitted to Rivers High School, described her first day's experience: "It was a fine day. I met several nice girls. I think I'm really going to enjoy Rivers." In Baton Rouge, La., 28 Negro kids broke the color barrier, and Mayor John Chris tian said he was "very well satisfied with the way things turned out." In Tallahassee, Fla., 16-year...
...other cities, too, in Charleston, S.C., Savannah, Ga., Gadsden, Ala., racial strife receded as whites and Ne groes tried to resolve their conflicts at negotiating tables instead of in the streets. The ugliest racial disorders of the week, ironically, occurred in New York, the great melting pot, a city of minorities, a city that years ago enacted laws forbidding discrimination in housing and employment. Negro demonstrators protesting job discrimination in the construction industry marched and picketed, knelt in the mud at construction sites, sat in front of bulldozers, singing
...CHARLESTON, S.C. Police arrested 123 Negro demonstrators as they marched through downtown Charleston. The Negroes had paraded every day for a week without incident. But this time, police said, they had blocked traffic and refused to obey orders to move on. Later 17 sit-in demonstrators were arrested and charged with trespass...
...CHARLESTON, S.C. Police arrested 39 adults and 19 juveniles for trespassing as they sought entrance to all-white movie theaters during week-long demonstrations...
...venture downtown for fear of possible violence. "The boycott seems to be moderating," says one businessman. "But it has been effective all right." In Macon, Ga., last year, Negroes discontinued riding buses to protest segregated seating, came back only after the bus company, suffering a 50% fare loss, capitulated. Charleston, S.C., Negroes won 16 clerks' jobs by selective buying, tightened their boycott with weekly "name the traitor" meetings at which line breakers were singled out. Negro women in Jackson, Miss., last week launched a "Don't Buy on Capitol Street" campaign, stationed pickets outside J. C. Penney...