Word: greensboro
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...short year, not from any Supreme Court decision or federal intervention, but from the simple, peaceful protest of the sit-in. Last week Negro students marched in silent files in key cities across the South to celebrate the anniversary of the first lunch-counter sit-in movement in a Greensboro, N.C. five and ten-and the achievement of lunch-counter integration in at least 85 other Southern cities. But last week's marchers were anything but jubilant. The anniversary launched a fight for equality on another front: movie theaters...
February 1, 1960, is now a signal date in American social history. The chronology and importance of the sit-in movement, which began on that day in Greensboro, North Carolina, are well enough known that they need not be repeated here. It is sufficient to note only that less than nine months later, lunch counters in over 110 communities in the South are for the first time serving both white and Negro customers. Non-violent resistance, the tactic of protest in the Southern cities and in Northern sympathy demonstrations, was never before used so widely or so successfully in America...
...adjournment of Congress promised a wide-open campaign trail, Richard Nixon discovered that he was not only running against Jack Kennedy but against a crippling opponent named hemolytic Staphylococcus aureus. A few days after he banged his left knee on an automobile door during his quick campaign trip to Greensboro, N.C., he began to sense that something was wrong. The knee swelled, but instead of going to a doctor, Nixon just bandaged the leg himself. Ten days after the accident he turned himself in to Walter Reed General Hospital for tests. A doctor drained off a sample of fluid from...
Beyond Magnolias. Southern states that Nixon has an even chance of winning are Virginia, where Patriarch Harry Byrd has yet to speak a kind word for Kennedy; North Carolina, where Ike four years ago lost by only 16,000 votes and Nixon interest is running high since his Greensboro visit; Florida, where Republicans are strong and Democrats are feuding; Kentucky and Oklahoma, each with considerable religious sentiment running; Tennessee, which has long had a traditional Republican belt in the east and now has an additional G.O.P. vote in the cities; and Texas, where Lyndon Johnson's home-state appeal...
...G.O.P.'s future is not all moonlight and magnolias. Early Republican surges have frightened Democrats into shirtsleeve activity. After Nixon's Greensboro triumph, for instance, Kennedy put on a Washington lunch for 60 North Carolina editors. He plans to visit the state twice this fall; Johnson will speak four times. Most dangerous obstacle at the moment for Republicans will be Southern school reopenings with concurrent integration and possible trouble, notably in New Orleans. Federal action, no matter the justice of it, could seriously damage what chances Nixon may have in a South that still remembers Little Rock...