Word: insing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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The sit-ins were initiated by college students, picketing dime stores in their college towns. Although later joined by large numbers of working-class Negroes, college students were the logical initiators of the new social protest for a variety of reasons.
¶ JAMES D. GREY, 53, New Jersey-born head of the $1,625,000 First Baptist Church of New Orleans since 1937, was the youngest president of the Southern Baptist Convention when he was elected in 1951 and 1952. He is a member of the executive committee of the Baptist...
New York: The biggest state has gone Republican in three straight presidential elections-the last time by 1,500,000 votes. To overcome the upstate Republican bulge, the Democrats need a landslide in New York City-where the "minorities" make up a majority. Biggest bloc: 2,600.000 Roman Catholics. The...
Truce. By week's end business was far below normal in Jacksonville, Governor LeRoy Collins had alerted the National Guard, and the city's 400-man police force was enforcing an uneasy truce. N.A.A.C.P. agents, in town to call off further sit-ins and to try to keep...
Two weeks ago, to end lunch counter sit-ins, white and Negro Houston civic leaders thrashed out an agreement desegregating the city's lunch counters. So that there would be no flare-ups when the change took place, all three Houston papers delayed publication of the news for one...