Word: counter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Woolworth demonstrations protested the refusal of four department stores in Birmingham, Ala., to desegregate their lunch counter facilities. The picketers claimed that owners of Woolworth's, Newberry's, H.L. Green, and had reneged on a year-old promise desegregate...
...announced that "Birmingham is the most thoroughly segregated big city in the U.S. today," said that he would lead demonstrations there until "Pharaoh lets God's people go." Specifically, he demanded creation of a biracial commission, fair hiring practices, amnesty for previously arrested demonstrators, an end to lunch-counter and other segregation...
Since January, the offices of The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company have hummed like a checkout counter as executives switched jobs. First, Chairman-President Ralph W. Burger, 73, stepped out as president and was succeeded by John D. Ehrgott, 67, despite the complaint of six outside directors that A. & P. needed younger blood. Next, Burger announced his retirement as chairman, creating an empty seat. Last week the seat was filled when quiet, reticent Jack Ehrgott moved up to chairman and chief executive after less than a month in his last job. As its new president A. & P. picked Vice President...
...contrast to the Soviet Union, the Chinese Communists seem to have consolidated their revolution with a minimum of physical brutality. Snow ran into many "reformed" landlords and ex-businessmen--men who would have been killed in Russia. According to law, political criminals are executed only when their counter revolutionary activity results in the death of another person. Most political prisoners go to rehabilitation centers or work camps where they receive education in socialism, a process called brainwashing in the West...
...past week over one hundred Negroes have been arrested in Birmingham, Alabama, as a result of the non violent campaign for integration that began there last Wednesday. The other arrests were precipitated by similar demonstrations and lunch-counter sit-ins. Already 24 Negroes have been sentenced to 180 days in jail and a fine of $100 each...