Word: lunches
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...invitation of PBH, more than 500 kids came to the University Saturday for a day of just plain fun. Boat rides on the Charles, free lunch at PBH, movies at Lowell Lecture Hall, tours of the CRIMSON and a visit with the CRIMSON's pet mouse, Andrew, highlighlighted a day which also included an Olympia at Soldiers Field, a trip to the top of Holyoke Center, and swimming...
...Woolworth demonstrations protested the refusal of four department stores in Birmingham, Ala., to desegregate their lunch counter facilities. The picketers claimed that owners of Woolworth's, Newberry's, H.L. Green, and had reneged on a year-old promise desegregate...
...King announced that "Birmingham is the most thoroughly segregated big city in the U.S. today," said that he would lead demonstrations there until "Pharaoh lets God's people go." Specifically, he demanded creation of a biracial commission, fair hiring practices, amnesty for previously arrested demonstrators, an end to lunch-counter and other segregation...
Reverting to Form. At first, King had trouble mustering any sizable group of Negro troops. When his demonstrators did show up some owners quietly closed their downtown lunch counters, did not even call police. Connor's cops made some routine arrests, but seemed uncommonly gentle about...
...past week over one hundred Negroes have been arrested in Birmingham, Alabama, as a result of the non violent campaign for integration that began there last Wednesday. The other arrests were precipitated by similar demonstrations and lunch-counter sit-ins. Already 24 Negroes have been sentenced to 180 days in jail and a fine of $100 each...