Word: gibsons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...battle began a decade ago, when the N.A.A.C.P. led a boycott against white merchants, some of whom were public officials, in Port Gibson, Miss. The aim was to force such changes as the desegregation of the local schools, bus stations and hospital, the hiring of black policemen and the elimination of such terms of address as boy, girl, shine and uncle. In February 1967 the boycott was eased after the town hired its first black policeman. Twice more-after Martin Luther King's assassination in 1968 and the police shooting of a Port Gibson black in 1969-the N.A.A.C.P...
...bond in a libel suit it lost a trial to a policeman from another Mississippi county. By last week an emergency round of fund raising-Atlanta Mayor Maynard Jackson even passed the hat on the street in front of his office-had produced only $763,374 for the Port Gibson bond. At the same time a frantic series of court appearances was producing negative answers...
Some graduate students presently borrow more than the $2500 they are allowed under present legislation by borrowing from different sources, Gibson said...
...bill will also change work study programs and basic education opportunity grants, but these provisions depend on how much money Congress appropriates under the bill, Gibson said...
...passed, the new amendments will supersede the Higher Education Amendments of 1972, but Gibson said that he does not know when the new law will go into effect