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This edition of the CRIMSON was prepared by the 1968-69 Nieman Fellows in Journalism. The Managing Editor was J. Anthony Lukas '55 of The New York Times. City Editor, Lawrence Allison of The Long Beach Independent, Press-Telegram. Editorial Page Editor, Jonathan Yardley of the Greensboro (N.C.) Daily News. Sports Editor, Paul Hemphill of The Atlanta Journal. Staff Reporters and Cheerleaders: Henry Bradsher of the Moscow Bureau of the Associated Press; Paul Houston of The Los Angeles Times; Robert Levey of The Boston Globe; Richard Long-worth of the Moscow Bureau of United Press International; Michael McGrady of Newsday...
...road maps, and it is a distinct mistake to ask local gas station owners how to get there ("Why you wonna go see them niggers boy?"). Most white visitors who find themselves in New Jerusalem are there by accident, having strayed off Country Road 21 on the way to Greensboro from Akron. The only white faces that appear regularly in the town are those of county sheriffs, looking for moonshine liquor...
...Greensboro (N.C.) News was angry enough to drop the strip for good, along with another strip where evildoers are casually obliterated without benefit of trial, Little Orphan Annie. Explained the paper on Page One: "We have been quick to criticize other communications media for exploiting and even glorifying violence. However, we have our own weaknesses in this field, and it is only right that we take the necessary steps to bring our practices into line with our editorial policy...
...incident sounded reminiscent of Civil Rights' days of the early 1960's: a group of black college students from an all-Negro, Southern college attempting to integrate a segregated business establishment. But the scene was Orangeburg, South Carolina--not Greensboro or Selma--and the climax of the demonstration sounded grimly like the outcome of the summer riots: three South Carolina State students dead and more than 60 wounded by the police and National Guard...
...November, 1960, students staged what would become known as a "sit-in" at a lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina. They were trying to integrate that restaurant through direct action instead of working for the election of a sympathetic mayor or city councilman. It was an historic moment in the evolution of American dissent. This rejection of electoral politics caught the imagination of students around the country. SNCC grew out of the Greensboro lunch counter...