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Even in Mississippi. Similarly, Negroes were admitted to previously all-white hotels and eating places in Savannah, Thomasville and Warner Robins, Ga. In Texas, Dallas' Piccadilly Cafeteria, a motel and lunch counter in Longview, restaurants in Palestine, and Austin, and a Beaumont drive-in were integrated. Thirty-three Memphis restaurants, including one of the city's largest downtown cafeterias, opened their doors to Negroes. Kemmons Wilson, chairman of the Memphis-based Holiday Inns motel chain, noting that he had instructed his motels to obey the new law, said: "The alternative is eventually anarchy, chaos and destruction...
Even in Mississippi, land of violence, there was quiet compliance. Negroes played golf on Jackson's municipal course, ate at a Vicksburg whites-only lunch counter, and, drawing scarcely a disapproving glance, checked into and ate at Jackson's two leading hotels and a motel. In Jackson, the way had been paved by a Chamber of Commerce policy statement urging local businessmen to "comply with the law, pending tests of its constitutionality in court...
Most Important People. The day of the caucus, Goldwater got to the motel first. At his heels surged a crowd of rooters, many sporting blackened eyes and chest ribbons that proclaimed...
...Martin Luther King Jr., leader of the demonstrators, are not reported at all. After whites and Negroes fought bloodily with clubs and fists in a local motel pool, the Record dusted off the same headline that it had used on the arrest of Mrs. Peabody: MORE ARRESTS...
...SHADY GLEN MOTEL...