Word: greensboro
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SUZANNE T. WALTON Greensboro...
...First Negro student sit-ins at Greensboro, N.C., lunch counters...
...Haynsworth's court decided that Negro doctors and patients were the victims of discrimination at two private hospitals in Greensboro, N.C. Because the Constitution does not cover purely private discrimination, Haynsworth argued, the court could do nothing for the plaintiffs. But a majority of his colleagues held that it could, emphasizing that the Government had partly financed the hospitals, which thus subjected them to constitutional safeguards against discrimination. 1965. When Negro pupils sued the Richmond school board to desegregate teachers-in addition to students-a 3-to-2 majority of Haynsworth's court held upon appeal that...
Susie, 24, is bright, sensitive, and perhaps the most attractive of the girls who attended the cookout. The daughter of a Greensboro, N.C., dentist, she attended Centenary College in Hackettstown, N.J., and later Miami University of Ohio. She went to Washington to work for Robert Kennedy in 1967. Her co-workers in the Kennedy mail room remember her as lively and exceptionally competent. She now works for New York's Representative Allard Lowenstein, one of the architects of the 1968 "Dump Johnson" movement...
...students from predominantly black North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University sat down at a Greensboro lunch counter. Peaceful but determined, the Negroes vowed not to move until they were served - and thereby set the pattern of nonviolent sit-ins that dominated black protest for years. Last week A. & T. students in the tobacco and textile town traded shots with police and National Guards men for three days. The contrast capsuled the revolution in the mode of protest in the U.S. that has taken place...