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...marchers filed through the circular driveway and onto the grounds in front of the statehouse in Columbia, S.C. They carried signs reading DOWN WITH SEGREGATION and I AM PROUD TO BE A NEGRO. Everything seemed orderly enough, but City Manager Irving McNayr spotted some "possible troublemakers," ordered Columbia's cops to send the Negro demonstrators home. When the Negroes refused, 187 were arrested, charged and convicted of "breach of the peace," handed jail sentences of up to 30 days or fines...
...Sumter, S.C., 26 Negroes were arrested for refusing to leave a segregated lunch counter. At the capital, Columbia, 200 young Negroes marched downtown amid white hecklers for nearly two hours, left when City Manager Irving McNayr warned that "an explosive situation" was abuilding. After students had agreed to halt demonstrations, a cross burning on a Negro college campus touched off a brick-throwing invasion of a white drive-in by 50 Negroes...
Doniel F. Martipi, Shamokin, Pa.; Allen W. Mathis, Jr., Park Ridge, Ill.; Thoman J. MeEilligoti, Watertown; Malcolm P. McNair, Jr., Cambridge; John S. McNayr, Newtonville; Robert K. Monney, Waterford, Conn; Lester J. Murphy, Dorchester; William O'Keefe, Staten Istand, New York; Thomas J. O'Toole, Newton; Frank A. Pemberton, Jr., Chestnut Hill; John G. Penson, Glen Head, L. I., N. Y.; Allen C. Percival, Fitchburg; Frederick Pope, Jr., Wilton, Conn.; Thomas C. Quirk, Watertown; James J. Redmen, Horulutu, Hawall; John C. Robbins, Jr., Cleveland Heights, Ohio; James T. Ragers, Binghampton...
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