Word: wednesday
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...measure, which passed the House by a voice vote Wednesday, also orders the Defense Department to expand the Junior ROTC program for the nation's high schools...
...trouble started when the dean of students banned organizations from soliciting membership and funds at outdoor tables on campus. The full spectrum of Berkeley's political make-up, from Goldwaterites to Socialists, rallied together, and Wednesday several groups set up tables in deliberate defiance of the dean's edict...
...Holly Springs Freedom School was to begin on Thursday, July 2. On Wednesday, about 25 teachers and registration workers roamed the streets of Holly Springs telling everyone they met that Freedom School would begin at 9 a.m. the next day. Because no building was available, classes were to be on the lawn of Rust College (a Negro liberal arts college, across the street from the freedom house). And because no one had any idea of what a freelom school was, the prospective teachers simply told their prospective pupils that the school would be "great...
...Wednesday, August 26: Henry attempts to get the delegates to reconsider the compromise. They refuse to take a new vote; but they agree to listen to the leaders of "groups whose help we've been forced to depend...
Once the Freedom delegates had entered the convention hall Wednesday night, they could not reconsider the compromise. King attempted to persuade Moses to reconsider his position by telling him that Humphrey promised co-operation with civil rights leaders for the next four years if the compromise was accepted. "We must be both militant and moderate," said King. Replied Moses: "Humphrey and McCarthy haven't been our allies. We need to build a fire under their feet...