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...line and a radio-telephone hookup linked him with the Administration's field force in Tuscaloosa: a team of U.S. marshals and Justice Department officials, headed by Deputy Attorney General Nicholas de Belleville Katzenbach, a big, balding man who is even tougher than he talks. At Fort Benning, Ga., 400 Army troops, specially trained for riot duty, sat in helicopters, ready to spin away to Tuscaloosa if they were needed...
...Nashville, Tenn., all the major hotels and motels and most of the restaurants agreed to integrate their facilities promptly. In a single recent week Bobby Kennedy counted 60 separate demonstrations by Negroes in various U.S. cities. Last week Negroes marched, picketed, sat in or rioted in Savannah, Ga., Danville, Va., Cambridge, Md., New York City, Providence, R.I., and dozens of other cities. In Washington, a crowd of 3,000 Negroes marched to Bobby Kennedy's Justice Department. When he came outside to speak to them, a Negro spokesman complained to him that "We haven't seen many Negroes...
...preserve "separate-but-equal" status in at least one area. For years many Dixie newspapers have printed separate Negro and white editions, splitting press runs to drop in pages of news for each community. "Negroes like it because they get more attention," claims Editor Joe Parham of the Macon (Ga.) Telegraph and News, where the practice is still in effect (as in Augusta). "We print their deaths and funeral notices, a hospital report, club meetings, birthdays, lodge notices, social and personal news...
...cemented friendships for the Navy on Capitol Hill with his frank answers, booming voice and earthy humor. Georgia's Carl Vinson, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, likes Korth so much that he took him along home recently to meet all the Vinson relatives in Milledgeville, Ga...
...community protest. In Birmingham, retailers have averaged a $750,000 weekly loss, some because Negro trade boycotted stores, some because whites did not venture downtown for fear of possible violence. "The boycott seems to be moderating," says one businessman. "But it has been effective all right." In Macon, Ga., last year, Negroes discontinued riding buses to protest segregated seating, came back only after the bus company, suffering a 50% fare loss, capitulated. Charleston, S.C., Negroes won 16 clerks' jobs by selective buying, tightened their boycott with weekly "name the traitor" meetings at which line breakers were singled out. Negro...