Word: newarkers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Rochelle was compelled under the 14th Amendment to allow the Negroes free access to white schools. More than half the Negroes transferred, leaving their old school near-defunct. Now the N.A.A.C.P. is battling for desegregation in at least 60 target areas from Connecticut to California: ∙Nine communities, from Newark. N.J., to Eloy, Ariz., have voluntarily desegregated. In more than 14 other communities, about half around New York City, the N.A.A.C.P. has filed federal suits or complaints with state officials. In Englewood. N.J.. a Negro store boycott is being urged by Negro Lawyer Paul Zuber. who filed the original...
...other groups belong with the best: > The Alex Bradford Singers take their name from a remarkable musician and an outstanding composer: Bradford's Too Close to Heaven has sold more than a million records. Alabama-born, he is a gifted choir director (now at Newark's Great Abyssinian Church), and his gospel style is notable for its sophistication-particularly in its choral effects. In churches around the country, Bradford and the group shout out their wildly exultant songs while appropriately clad in flowing robes...
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DAVID SELBY Newark...
...Divinity School, crew-cut Episcopalian Castle put in five years at two suburban New Jersey parishes, chafed all the while for a city mission. Then he was asked to take over St. John's in Jersey City, a crumbling brownstone and granite edifice which the Episcopal diocese of Newark had thought of shutting down for lack of parishioners...