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Four Yale students have been beaten during the last two days in Mississippi, both by police and incensed southern citizens. The Yalies have been working in the mock gubernatorial campaign of Aaron Henry, president of the NAACP in the state...
...least five Yale students and two non-Yale members of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee have been arrested in Mississippi for their part in the political campaign of Aaron Henry, president of the state branch of the NAACP and a candidate for governor...
...another local move yesterday, the NAACP Legal defense and Educational Fund filed a motion in the U.S. Supreme Court asking the court to set bail for Perdew and three other Northern college students in the Americas, Ga., county jail. The students, all volunteer civil rights workers, were indicted Aug. 8 for "inciting to insurrection." They were leaders in a drive to break the color bar at a local movie theater...
...School Committee, by a four-to-one vote, refused to admit that any segregation existed and thus has refused to discuss these proposals with the NAACP; however, they facilitated transfer arrangements somewhat. Only one member of the Committee, Arthur land, was even willing to admit the existence of de facto segregation. He finished a ragged fifth in the primary election last month and is in danger of losing on the Committee. Of the other candidates, only Melvin King, a South End social worker, supports the NAACP's proposals; he finished seventh as he did two years ago, but with nine...
...NAACP's requests are reasonable and deserve the which the majority of the School Committee refused to give them. If the tactics of the inte have antagonized many white Bostonians and have made opposition to the NAACP electorally profitable for School Committee candidates, those tactics do not detract from the inherent injustice of de facto segregation. The first step toward ending the in the Boston schools would be the of Arthur Gartland and the election of Melvin King to the School Committee at the general election...