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Young started a voter registration drive in Thomasville, Ga., only to have counterdemonstrating Ku Klux Klan members thwart his campaign. When the civil rights movement gained momentum in the early '60s, Young joined King and the S.C.L.C...
...Ridge Associated Universities, Biologist Raymond L. Hayes and Physician C. Lowell Edwards have given Ga-67 intravenously to 84 patients. At first it shows no selectivity between normal and tumor tissues. But after 48 hours the concentrations are enormously different in diseased and healthy areas: 10 to 1 for some blood cancers, and as high as 100 to 1 in muscle cancer. Ga-67's spectrum of cancer selectivity is probably the widest of any radioisotope...
...hearing than before. Georgia Governor Lester Maddox, for example, denounced the "Gestapo" from Washington and urged parents to ignore their children's transfers to desegregated schools. He got some followers in Stockbridge, but authorities there insisted that the children attend their assigned schools. Attempted white boycotts in Augusta, Ga., and Richmond, Va., failed...
...great many others. In Greenville, Miss., where attitudes tend to be more extreme than in the upper South, most of the city's 10,124 students moved quietly into schools that had been desegregated through a pairing plan drawn up by a local biracial commission. At Macon, Ga., all but 2,000 of the system's 33,000 children showed up for the opening of classes in once segregated schools. And in Houston, blacks and whites went to school together-while Mexican Americans, who resented being classified as white instead of "brown," stayed out in protest...
Hello Whites. The generally good beginning-marred by the bombing of an elementary school scheduled to be desegregated this week in Edgecombe County, N.C.-was exemplified in the semirural district that includes Thomaston, Ga. Most of the 5,700 students went to integrated schools for the first time. Threats of white disruption failed to materialize; a black boycott fizzled...