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...county officials appointed three Negro voting clerks and registered more than 300 Negro voters in a single day. In Bogalusa, La., two Negro policemen were hired. In Slidell, La., night riders burned two Negro churches. In Chicago, civil rights demonstrators marched outside the modest home of Mayor Richard Daley- and were pelted with eggs and tomatoes by Daley's white neighbors. In Washington and Philadelphia, Martin Luther King led more marchers...
Chicago's Mayor Richard Daley was hopping mad. Just the day before, midday Loop traffic had been snarled for four hours while 500 civil rights demonstrators marched on city hall and the nearby board of education building to protest a decision to keep School Superintendent Benjamin C. Willis on the job for another 17 months. Daley got Police Superintendent Orlando W. Wilson on the phone, told him: "Nothing like what happened yesterday will exist today." When the demonstrators showed up, cops arrested 252 men, women and children in what may well have been the opening round of a racially...
Among those arrested were Congress of Racial Equality Director James Farmer, Negro Comic Dick Gregory and High School Teacher Albert Raby, who organized the march. Said Raby: "We're going to see to it that it will be a long, hot summer for Daley. Every Negro who cannot march will be asked to turn on all his faucets and drain the water." That seemed an especially silly way to protest, and could lead not only to a long, hot summer for Chicago but a long, dry one as well...
While Lady Bird vacationed in a Virgin Islands retreat, the President took Luci with him to a good old-fashioned Democratic fund-raising dinner in Mayor Dick Daley's Chicago. It was the sort of occasion that would ordinarily bring out the rousing Republican baiter in L.B.J. But not this time. Instead, he used it to issue an appeal to the Russian people for friendship, and to declare himself firmly against appeasement. Recalling the lesson of Munich, he said: "In the 1930s we made our fate not by what we did but by what we failed...
Finally, Cambridge resident John Mello happened by and jumped in to help Daley. He succeeded in freeing the policeman, and the two fought off the gang until someone called police headquarters...