Word: greensboro
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...economic powers in the Industrial Piedmont Cities of Charlotte, Greenville, and Greensboro, in the inland trade centers such as Nashville and Jackson, in the port cities of Savannah, Charleston, and New Orleans, in the heavy industry areas at Knoxville, Chattanooga, Birmingham, and Memphis and especially in Atlanta, are seizing control of the civic leadership. Their natural conservatism is tempered by the overwhelming drive for new progress: they constitute a force of moderatism...
...Plough Inc., Memphis, $375,000; Johnson & Johnson, New Brunswick, N.J., $350,000; Burroughs, Wellcome & Co., Tuckahoe, N.Y., $329,058; Ames Co. Inc., Elkhart, Ind., $302,162; Baxter Laboratories Inc., Morton Grove, Ill., $208,078; Pitman-Moore Co., Indianapolis, $178,980; Kendall Co., Boston, $159,323; Richardson-Merrill, Greensboro, N.C., $155,000; Atlas Chemical Industry, Wilmington, $149,282; Sandoz Pharmaceuticals, Hanover, N.J., $137,260. Under...
JOHN E. ELIASON Greensboro...
...Atlanta, Ga., Nashville, Tenn., Charlotte, Greensboro and High Point, N.C., the quiet, carefully mannered Negro students queued up at the white-only box offices of movie houses. One after another they requested tickets; as each was refused he went to the end of the line to start over. In Hampton, Va., a group of students bought tickets to a segregated theater and sat in the white-only seats. Fifteen were arrested...
...meeting commemorating the Greensboro sit-in, a Winston-Salem minister ticked off a long list of "ins" that are still to come. Among them: pray-ins, apply-ins (equality of employment opportunity), buy-ins (equal opportunity to purchase homes), study-ins and bury...