Word: insing
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More and more, this is the season of "TV to Read a Good Book By." Except for the Republican Convention, there is precious little this week beyond 1 ) reruns and 2) specious summer fill-ins:
Southern integration must result from non-violent action, the Reverend James Lawson commented last night at a meeting sponsored by the Lunch Counter Integration Committee. Lawson recently gained national prominence by his participation in the Nashville sit-ins, which brought his expulsion from Vanderbilt University.
Lawson saw the Nashville sit-ins as the turning point in the success of the integration movement. By capturing the imagination of many Southern Negroes, the demonstrators, he said, instilled new life into the movement. The Reverend called upon Negroes to endure whatever hardships the sit-ins would bring. Citing...
LUNCH COUNTER VICTORY was won by Negroes in Charlotte, N.C., second city in state to agree to serve whites and Negroes alike (first: Winston-Salem). In Knoxville, Tenn., three stores (Miller's, Sears, Roebuck & Co., and Rich's) closed lunch counters permanently because of sit-ins. Texas'...
The Price of Segregation. How much have the sit-ins and picketing hurt business? Both Woolworth and Kress refuse to say. Woolworth has only 18% of its 2,250 stores in the South. On overall figures, Woolworth has not been affected. Last year sales rose to a record $916,836...