Word: ga
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Wandering through what is called the Harlem section of Albany, Ga. (pop. 59,000), the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., 33, paused to talk to clusters of Negroes on street corners, stepped gingerly into a poolroom and a tavern, visited a shoe shop here, a filling station there. He preached a theme that Albany's restless Negroes were finding harder and harder to accept: nonviolence in their drive to desegregate the town...
...Raleigh, N.C.-where an 8,000-vote Negro bloc has been the deciding factor in the last two municipal elections-cruised through Negro neighborhoods with a Negro registrar in their bus and station wagon, registered 1,300 new voters at the curbside in six weeks. In Terrell County, Ga., a federal injunction two years ago finally resulted in the registration of 51 of the county's 8,209 Negroes. Last week New York Times Correspondent Claude Sitton was on hand when the Terrell County sheriff and an ominous crowd of whites tried to stop a new drive...
...Texas-where Negro registration has increased from 33,000 to 300,000 in 20 years-the race issue is dead in statewide elections, and in this onetime Confederate state both candidates for governor this fall are taking a moderate line on civil rights. In Atlanta, Savannah and Macon, Ga., tightly organized Negro voters' leagues form a powerful coalition with moderate "uptown whites...
Into a cherry orchard in France, not far from Paris' Orly Airport, walked a grey-haired man, Ivan Allen Jr., the mayor of Atlanta, Ga. Before him lay the charred debris of an Air France 707 jetliner...
...will still be dwarfed by Canadian-born Roy Thomson, who bought the Dalton, Ga., Daily News (circ. 5,000) last week and ran his international collection of newspapers...