Strife & Strides

Throughout the U.S., the civil rights strife continued--and here and there some forward strides were made. A city-by-city summary:

SAVANNAH, GA. Some 1,000 Negro demonstrators rallied in front of a segregated Holiday Inn motel to chant their demands for equality. Then they moved toward the city jail, where dozens of others, arrested during three weeks of previous demonstrations, were already locked up. City police, reinforced by Georgia state troopers, moved in to break up the march. Pelted with bottles and bricks, the cops retaliated with billy clubs and tear gas, arrested about 275 more Negroes.

GADSDEN, ALA. Flailing away with night sticks and jabbing with electric cattle prods, some 50 Alabama state troopers drove more than 300 Negro demonstrators from the lawn of Etowah County Courthouse. The Negroes had gathered to protest the arrest of 396 demonstrators during a freedom march on segregated downtown stores the day before. Later a shotgun blast slammed into a state patrol car as it cruised a Negro section of the city. The troopers inside were not injured.

CAMBRIDGE, MD. National Guardsmen with fixed bayonets patrolled the streets to enforce martial law. A 10 p.m. curfew was imposed on all Cambridge citizens. The militiamen were ordered into Cambridge by Maryland's Governor J. Millard Tawes after Negro demonstrations threatened to break into open warfare between the races. During a temporary truce, Negro leaders negotiated with white city councilmen for the anti-segregation ordinances they have demanded.

BOSTON. More than 8,000 high school students, both Negro and white, skipped classes after Negro leaders urged a student "stay out for freedom" protest against de facto segregation in Boston schools. Some 1,000 students turned up at churches and civic centers for one-day sessions in Negro history, basic government and civil rights.

ST. LOUIS. About 500 demonstrators paraded in front of board of education headquarters singing hymns and chanting prayers in a peaceful, two-hour protest against de facto segregation in St. Louis' heavily Negro neighborhoods.

NEW YORK CITY. Violence erupted at African Nationalist street meetings in the heart of Manhattan's Harlem. More than 100 police battled the rioters with night sticks. Two cops were hospitalized and 26 rioters jailed.

CHARLESTON, S.C. Police arrested 39 adults and 19 juveniles for trespassing as they sought entrance to all-white movie theaters during week-long demonstrations.

ATLANTA. A 15-year-old Negro boy, taking part in a restaurant sit-in, was stabbed by a white customer. All week, Negroes and whites bathed together in newly integrated swimming pools.

TUSCALOOSA, ALA. The University of Alabama board of trustees filed notice that it would ask the Circuit Court of Appeals for permission to oust newly admitted Negro Students Vivian Malone and James Hood. Meanwhile the two proceeded quietly about their studies, and the U.S. Army announced that it will release 3,100 members of the Alabama National Guard from active duty, leaving only 300 federalized guardsmen at the university.

RALEIGH, N.C. A biracial committee announced that Raleigh is finally desegregated "on a citywide basis."

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. A biracial committee announced that 42 eating places have desegregated.

LITTLE ROCK, ARK. The city school board voted to extend desegregation to the first and fourth grades this fall, and assigned nine Negroes to formerly all-white schools. The action completes Little Rock's court-approved desegregation plan a year earlier than had been required, or expected.

RICHMOND. Thirty-five of the city's better restaurants desegregated.

GREENWOOD, MISS. FBI agents arrested Byron de la Beckwith, 42, member of a white segregationist Mississippi Citizens Council, in connection with Medgar Evers' ambush slaying (TIME, June 21). J. Edgar Hoover said that the "Golden Hawk" telescope similar to that on the assassin's rifle had been traced to Beckwith, whose fingerprints checked with those on the murder weapon.

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