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...January on the U.S. embassy, the college youths were joined by some unemployed slumdwellers and by scores of Manila's striking "jeepney" drivers. The demonstrators were dispersed by wicker-shielded police before they reached the embassy. Three days later, student leaders angrily rejected Manila Mayor Antonio Villegas' plea for a ban on demonstrations and announced that they would conduct organized protests against the government at least once a week...
Shortly after the group's leader-veteran civil rights worker Fannie Lou Hamer-made an emergency plea for money. Harvard donors sent in some $3300. With that money, the co-op held its option on a 40-acre farm where it began its first cooperative projects...
...more than 10,000 children among its 23 white and ten black schools, thereby transferring some white children into black neighborhoods. Actually, Charlotte had moved toward a better balance, but not quickly enough to suit the court. Yet students representing all of the high schools issued a plea to their parents arguing that "dissension and resistance to the law and to human rights can only destroy our schools and our community...
Joanne Pelham, spokeswoman for the residents, demanded money to reconstruct and adequately staff the dilapidated Fuller Settlement House. She insisted that an M.C. board member accompany them to present their plea to the Northeastern M.C. administrative board in New York. The board supported her by a show of hands...
...despite a plea for immediate action, the defense does not expect Judge Julius J. Hoffman to acquiesce easily to the mistrial motion...