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...protests came swiftly against Woolworth's policies. Among the first to speak was Florida A. & M. College Student Barbara Broxton, 20, released from jail a fortnight ago after serving 48 days on a trespassing conviction arising from a sit-in at a Woolworth lunch counter in Tallahassee. Brought to the meeting by the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), Barbara said: "I speak for the Southern students. We will fight because we are right. I've been in jail, and I'm willing to go back if necessary." The Rev. Thomas Carlisle, pastor of Watertown's Stone...
Community Responsibility. Woolworth President R. C. Kirkwood was ready with a written statement. "Dealing as we are," said he, "with deep-rooted convictions of people in the South, it is hardly realistic to suppose that any one company is influential enough to suddenly change their thinking on the subject." Heckled by the handful of anti-segregationist,. Kirkwood replied: "This is not an issue between Woolworth and the colored race; it is between the American people and the colored race...
Anti-segregation demonstrators also turned up last week at the S. H. Kress annual meeting in New York City. Like Woolworth, Kress holds that the decision is up to the community. "We feel," said Kress Board Chairman Paul L. Troast, "that each of our stores should follow the custom of the community in which it operates. We should not use our position as a nationwide company to force a change on any individual city or town...
...results, says his pleas helped to cause W. T. Grant to open its lunch counters in Baltimore to Negroes and Greyhound to end segregated bus seating. "I attended Greyhound annual meetings for nine years straight," says Peck. "Finally, we won." Even before the demonstrations last week, both Kress and Woolworth had stopped excluding Negroes from lunch counters in San Antonio, Galveston and Nashville. Kress has desegregated in Austin. Negotiations to desegregate the counters are under way in many other Southern cities...
...Price of Segregation. How much have the sit-ins and picketing hurt business? Both Woolworth and Kress refuse to say. Woolworth has only 18% of its 2,250 stores in the South. On overall figures, Woolworth has not been affected. Last year sales rose to a record $916,836,907; earnings were $4.03 per share (v. $3.34 in 1958). So far this year, sales are up11.8...