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EMMETT BAILEY Durham...
...strength along the border, holding slight leads in Tennessee and Kentucky. The Democrats claimed North Carolina and South Carolina-two states that Nixon had been counting in his column-and signs were mounting that Southern Negroes, who had been strong for Ike, were swinging back to the Democrats (in Durham, N.C., one bellwether Negro precinct that went 66% for Ike in 1956 went 66% for Kennedy...
Forthright Answer. Nixon reminded North Carolinians that he had lived in the South, indeed had spent three years at the Duke University Law School in Durham. N.C., and knew that civil rights are "a difficult and complex problem." He had a forthright answer to a question about the Southwide Negro sit-in movement begun in Greensboro last February: "Any American is entitled to go into a store to buy products, and should have the same right as any other American to use all the facilities of that store without discrimination." And without saying anything to lose any Negro votes...
...Negro sit-in campaigns to achieve equality in sitting down at lunch counters won three more victories last week. Variety stores (all of them national chains: Woolworth, Kress, Grant) in Durham, N.C., Chattanooga, Tenn., and Miami, Fla. opened counters to all customers without discrimination. Since the sit-in movement began last February in Greensboro N.C., counters have been desegregated in 32 other cities and counties in the South and the border states...