Word: savannahs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Abram Eisenman, editor of the weekly Savannah, Georgia Sun, described his ordeal as a Southern supporter of integration at a Harvard-Radcliffe Liberal Union forum Tuesday night...
During the worst part of his harassment by Ku Klux Klan and White Citizens' Council members, "the only people in Savannah who were of comfort were three Protestant ministers," Eisenman related. "The police would say, 'You're a good guy, Abe, and you shouldn't take up for niggers...
Almost no one in Savannah seriously challenged the city's pattern of racial segregation until the sit-in demonstrations of 1959, Eisenman declared. Then racial tension rose to the point of "un-civil war." Demonstrators were arrested, street riots took place, and gun stores sold their entire stocks, he said...
...Newcomers: Philadelphia, Cleveland, Baltimore, Los Angeles-Long Beach, St. Louis, Kansas City, Mo., Peoria, Akron, Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, Asheville, Corpus Christi, Flint, Grand Rapids, Knoxville, Louisville, Mobile, Newark, New Brunswick-Perth Amboy, Portland, Ore., Savannah, Tacoma, Toledo, Trenton, Worcester, and York...
...Savannah. Ga., to cope with store-picketing students. Mayor Lee Mingledorff asked the city council to pass an ordinance requiring licensing of pickets. "I don't especially care if it's constitutional or not," said...