Word: ga
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Robertson, Va. Russell, Ga. Stennis, Miss. Talmadge, Ga. Thurmond...
...color barrier, and Mayor John Chris tian said he was "very well satisfied with the way things turned out." In Tallahassee, Fla., 16-year-old Harold Knowles, one of three Negroes to start classes at Leon High School, said: "I expected some friction, but nothing hap pened." In Savannah, Ga., 25 Negroes entered previously all-white public and parochial high schools, and a white pu pil said later: "We'll be all right if everybody will just leave us alone." In Cambridge, Md., summer-long scene of civil rights strife, 20 Negroes were peaceably admitted to white schools...
...Alto, Ga...
...years ending in 1918, the N.A.A.C.P. lists 3,224 cases in which people were hanged, burned or otherwise murdered by white mobs. No Negro could feel really safe-for reasons perhaps best described in the well-authenticated report of one famed lynching: "A mob near Valdosta, Ga., frustrated at not finding the man they sought for murdering a plantation owner, lynched three innocent Negroes instead; the pregnant wife of one wailed at her husband's death so loudly that the mob seized her and burned her alive, too." Says Roy Wilkins of the priority given by the N.A.A.C.P...
With that, millions of people-North and South, black and white-felt the fangs of segregation and, at least in spirit, joined the protest movement. The revolution was on-in earnest. Places little known for anything else became bywords for racial conflict-Anniston, Ala., Albany, Ga., Prince Edward County, Va., Cambridge, Md., Englewood, N.J., Greenwood and Greenville, Miss., Goldsboro and Greensboro...