Word: depots
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Rolling up on schedule at the pink stucco bus depot in McComb, Miss. (pop. 15,500), a Greyhound discharged six Negro passengers. While a crowd of some 600 whites pushed against police cordons, the Negroes walked into the terminal's white waiting room, sat for three minutes while their baggage was unloaded. It was the first time a public facility had been integrated in Mississippi...
Even such small success came hard. Last September the Interstate Commerce Commission ordered an end to all bus depot segregation, but in McComb, no sooner were "white" and "colored" signs removed from the depot than local police set them up on the sidewalk outside. A federal court ordered the new signs removed. Early last week three Negro men and two girls were dispatched by the activist Congress of Racial Equality to test McComb's obedience to federal authority. In the depot they were set upon, beaten, and driven into the street by young white toughs...
...deputy marshals began assembling in New Orleans. But Attorney General Robert Kennedy called McComb from Washington, got Mayor Charles H. Douglas' promise to keep order. Thus, when the second group of CORE riders arrived in McComb, 15 cops, the sheriff and nine Pike County deputies were at the depot. They picked up four troublemakers who attacked visiting newsmen (including TIME's Atlanta Bureau Chief Simmons Fentress), protected the CORE riders until an afternoon bus took them back to New Orleans...
...Winthrop resolution called for investigation of "the obligation to student required by the HSA's monopoly status at Harvard" and of the "criteria involved in determining 'needy students." A study of the complaints caused by the linen depot system, beer mugs, and other HSA services was also asked...
...figures compiled by the Crimson concerning freshman laundry depots must be considered invalid. The pretty girl in a tight sweater who compiled these statistics by asking freshmen "What do you think of the laundry depots?", failed to ask whether they were aware of any alternative proposals. Upon questioning several members of the class who answered in the affirmative, we discovered that they were unaware of the door to door service which would replace the depot system. Had this fact been ascertained, the results would have been much different--the great extent of freshman disapproval would have been shown. Peter...