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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...individuals-white and black, leaders and followers. TIME has recorded this story week by week, and also turned the spotlight on its leaders: on Negro Lawyer Thurgood Marshall (Sept. 19, 1955), who did much to win a major battle for his people before the Supreme Court, and on Mississippi's Senator James O. Eastland (March 26), whose tradition and training have set him against integration every step of the way. This week, in writing of Montgomery's Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., TIME examines a turn in the struggle that neither Lawyer Marshall nor Senator Eastland could have...
Most of all, Baptist King's impact has been felt by the influential white clergy, which could-if it would-help lead the South through a peaceful and orderly transitional period toward the integration that is inevitable. Explains Baptist Minister Will Campbell, onetime chaplain at the University of Mississippi, now a Southern official of the National Council of Churches: "I know of very few white Southern ministers who aren't troubled and don't have admiration for King. They've become tortured souls." Says Baptist Minister William Finlator of Raleigh, N.C.: "King has been working...
FIRST FORMOSA SHIPYARD for tankers over 30,000 tons will be built by U.S. and Chinese investors. Mississippi's Ingalls Shipbuilding Corp. has taken ten-year lease on Taiwan Shipbuilding Corp. yards at Keelung, will add $2,000,000 to Chinese investors' $10 million for expansion, says it already has two contracts for 32,000-tonners. Formosan shipworkers will be sent to U.S. for training...
...INDUSTRIAL CITY will rise along Mississippi River 30 miles upstream from New Orleans. William Zeckendorf's Webb & Knapp is break ing ground for $120 million townsite for 4,000 families, expects to finish first houses by July. Another $200 million will be invested in new plants there by Olin Revere Metals, Dow Chemical Co., Wyandotte Chemicals Corp., Kaiser Aluminum Corp...
...modernization program at the Bayonne plant, and very likely move out altogether-just as Tidewater Oil Co. did two years ago. The Esso plant pays one-fourth of the tax bill of Bayonne (pop. 81,500), has a $1,000,000 monthly payroll for its 1,800 workers. Said Mississippi-born Edwards: "If we pull out and shift the tax load to other industries, a number of these other industries will also pull out. The city would go bankrupt...