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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...city. Reason: in the last decade, by minimal count of Birmingham's white newspapers, there have already been 22 dynamite bombings and four arson burnings at tributable to race tensions. Fountain Heights and North Smithfield, where Negroes, with a go-ahead from federal courts, began moving in nine years ago to break the city's segregated housing patterns, are now known as "Dynamite Hill." The $18,000 home of the Negro woman who had won the lawsuit was torn by a dynamite blast days after the court decision. And many years, many blasts later, the ordeal turned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: BIRMINGHAM: Integration's Hottest Crucible | 12/15/1958 | See Source »

They panicked, ran screaming to the windows, fighting, kicking, pummeling. Some jumped 25 ft. down to concrete pavements below, limped or crawled away with twisted limbs. Some hung on, waited for the firemen. Fourth-Grader Ronnie Sarno, 10, fought to a window, called out to his nine-year-old sister Joanne: "I'm going to jump! Do you want to come?" As he eased himself over the sill, he heard her scream: "Don't jump, Ron! Don't jump!" And never saw her alive again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DISASTERS: The Chicago School Fire | 12/15/1958 | See Source »

Five-foot seven-inch guard George Harrington led the first half scoring, mainly with sharp set shots from the outside. He was followed by Griff McClellan with nine points and captain Bob Repetto and Mike Donohue, who sank eight points each...

Author: By Thomas M. Pepper, | Title: Bowditch's Spurt in Second Half Helps Five to Top Ephs, 80-70 | 12/11/1958 | See Source »

Picket lines of strikers posed a threat to continued operation of all nine of the city's big dailies. They employ more than 20,000 persons and have a combined payroll of over two million dollars a week...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: Jordan Discovers Egyptian Plot, Intercepts Smuggled Ammunition; Delivery Strike Hits N.Y. Dailies | 12/11/1958 | See Source »

...integrity of student days, etc. Of course at the end there comes the uncomfortably awaited Spanish Irony--the heroine is run off the road by the eternal bicycle rider. If you want to go to the seven thirty show, manage to arrive about a quarter of nine...

Author: By David M. Farquhar, | Title: The Death of Manolete | 12/8/1958 | See Source »

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