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That long-standing Deep South definition was challenged last week by the Justice Department in a suit filed against the city of Biloxi. In a brand-new kind of assault on segregation in the South's "public" parks and beaches, the U.S. argued that Negroes, too, are members of...
With the coming of the South's sultry summer. Negroes intend to turn the heat on a new front in their campaign against segregation. Sit-ins at segregated lunch counters will give way to "wade-ins" at segregated public beaches. "Negroes get hot just like white people do," said...
The largest Protestant denomination in the U.S. last week wrestled with its own particular version of the great debate over racial integration. Gathered in Denver's City Auditorium for the quadrennial General Conference of the Methodist Church, 788 voting delegates fought -sometimes bitterly-over a report by a 70...
The Embarrassing Central. The seeds of the problem were sown in 1939, when Methodists rejoiced in the completion of a long march to reunion after the split of the Civil War. Three separate churches -the Methodist Episcopal Church, the Methodist Episcopal Church South, and the Methodist Protestant Church-united in...
¶ In Norfolk, a police court judge fined two Negro college students $15 apiece for distributing handbills protesting against lunch-counter segregation.