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...mass meeting in the chapel. King appeared with handkerchief in hand and tearfully begged the students for understanding. "I'm a Negro just like you are," he said. "I sit in a Jim Crow car just like you do." But he refused to resign. Said Student Council President Ernest McEwen: "As far as the students are concerned, the institution is dead...
...Anent the crocodile tears of Mr. Wilson of Los Angeles: there are no Jim Crow tanks here guarding against the Negroes' escape to Los Angeles. KARL RAMSEY Memphis
British officialdom welcomed the new U.S. plan and even the anti-Americanism of the Tories thawed slightly. Here and there the Tory press, which had long wanted the U.S. to move "jointly" with Britain in the Middle East, was tempted to crow that the new U.S. position merely paralleled the British line-which contended that Britain had launched its attack against Egypt just to stop the Russians. "As things are now shaping," snapped Beaverbrook's Sunday Express, "we may have [Eisenhower] ordering us back into Egypt . . . I hope the thought of it isn't spoiling his golf game...
...Christmas night six or more dynamite sticks blasted the Shuttlesworth house. Miraculously, Shuttlesworth and his family escaped serious hurt. Shuttlesworth next day led some 150 of his followers in broad-scale, nonsegregated bus riding, later was persuaded to call off the drive after 22 Negroes were arrested for Jim Crow violations...
...week, the Negro boycott against the Montgomery, Ala. city bus lines came to an end-381 days after it began. The Negroes had won their fight: they rode unsegregated on buses in the Confederacy's birthplace. Desegregation still had a long way to go, but after Montgomery, Jim Crow would never again be quite the same...