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Negroes Enter Univ. Of Alabama Under Guard Protection
James Hood and Asst. Atty. General John Doar (left) watch as military and
state officials confer over Hood’s and Vivian Malone’s admission to the Uni
versity of Alabama (center). Registered Mr. Hood and Miss Malone leave
the campus (right). Governor George C. Wallace had kept his campaign pro
mise and had stood in the doorway of the university* s auditorium in an es-
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Local Community Leaders Hail JFK For
Strong National
Prominent Atlanta Negro
leaders were high in their
praise of President Kennedy's
televised plea to the nation for
help in bringing about full equal
ity and real freedom for Amer
ican Negroes.
Kennedy's speech was ob
viously something long sought
by champions of equal rights,
and was clearly the strongest
and most forthright civil rights
stand of his administration.
$lO,OOO Offered For Ever’s Slayer
Medgar Evers
Lost 45 Pounds In 32-Day Fast
Says He "Would Do It Again,”
Visibly weakened by the loss
of 45 pounds during a 32-day
hunger strike in Alabama’s Kil
by Prison, Freedom Marcher
Eric Weinburger is regaining
his strength in Atlanta this
week.
The unusually withdrawn, yet
boldly dedicated, man slomped
over as he sat on the couch at
the apartment of a fellow free
dom-fighter and related a few
details of his foodless stay in
jail. He had refused to “co
operate with an unjust system. 1
Weinburger was one of ten
Freedom Marchers arrested as
they crossed the Alabama state
line enroute to Jackson, Mis
sippi after the fashion of brutal
ly slain postal employee Wil
liam Moore.
THE
Quanta inquirer
* ’ "To seek out the Truth and report it without Fear or Favor"
Georgia State Senator, Leroy
Johnson called the speech “a
moral proclamation to the coun
try" and “the finest statements
delineating the policies of this
country in race relations that
has been made in the last three
decades.”
Atlanta NAACP president C.
Miles Smith called it “one of
the greatest speeches made
since Abraham Lincoln's Get
tysburg Address. I don't think
NAACP's Roy Wilkens and Ruby Hurley are among top officials
who flew to Jackson Miss, this week after the Tuesday shooting
in the back of their fellow worker. $lO thousand dollars reward
is being offered for the apprehension of the murderer.
“Men love darkness rather than
light because their deeds are
evil". This biblical statement
never crossed the minds of the
murderer who released a shot
in the shadows of darkness and
struck down 37 year old Medgar
Evers, NAACP field secretary
for the state of Mississippi.
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ATLANTA, GEORGIA. SATURDAY, JUNE 15.1963
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JOHN KENNEDY
Evers was born in Decatur,
Mississippi and received his
education in his native state
at Alcorn A&M University. In
1952 he joined the NAACP and
became a staff member of the
organization in 1954.
No stranger to Mississippi
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The Marchers were all found
guilty of disturbing the peace
and fined $2OO each plus the
costs of court after their 32-
day stay in prison. They are
all out on appeal bonds.
Weinburger has dedicated
himself to working with 71
share-cropping families mak
ing leather “tote bags" in the
cotton country of Brownville,
Tennessee to help supplement
their earnings during lean
months.
Asked if he would go through
the whole thing again, the shal
low-faced, bearded figure (he
grew it in jail) with a disturb
ing smile looked up and simply
said, “Yeah!”
fort to prevent the desegregation of the Alabama school. Moments after the
governor's stand, federalized troups returned; Wallace stepped aslde,and the
Negro youths were registered.. Hood was attending Atlanta’s Clark College
while awaiting admission to the University of Alabama; Miss Malone was at
Alabama A&M in Normal. (Duncan McConnell —Photo Correspondent)
Civil Rights Plea
his speech will touch the hearts
of the extremists, but I hope
that it will awaken the middle
of-the-roaders who sit by and
let the extremists take over."
Veteran State Democratic
leader, Attorney A.T. Walden
told the Inquirer, “I think that
it was a splendid presentation.
The President said things that
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HIT GA. JIM CROW POSTAL MEET
ATLANTA. Local #73 (Atlanta ) National Association of Letter
Carriers agreed to attend their Segregated Georgia State Meeting
at Jekyll Island under strong protest. The interracial Local #73
passed a resolution to the effect that no future state meeting would
be held except on a completely integrated basis.
KENNEDY AVOIDS PICKETS
LOS ANGELES . . To avoid crossing picket lines set up by
CORE, President Kennedy landed by helicopter on the roof of the
hotel at which he stopped. Picketers were demanding that the
President exert moral leadership in ending the racial troubles.
POOLS OPEN PEACEFULLY
ATLANTA . . . Atlanta’s desegregated pools opened Weds, with
only one reported incidence ot violence. A fist fight at Maddox
Park between two teenagers was quickly broken up by police.
MINISTERS RESIGN
JACKSON . . . Negro students appeared at several churches
last Sunday and were refused admittance. Asa result, two Metho
dist ministers are requesting transfers to other churches. The
two said, in essence, they could not willingly serve a pastorate
at which everybody is not able to worship.
LAYS UPGRADES EMPLOYEE
ATLANTA . . . The public relations office of Frito-Lays Potato
Chip Company informed the Inquirer that its first Negro route
salesman has been hired.
SMITH ELECTED DENTAL PREXY
ATLANTA . . . The Georgia State Dental Association, holding
its annual meeting in Atlanta this week, elected Dr. C. Miles
Smith as its president for the 1963-64 term. Dr. Smith is presi
dent of the Atlanta Branch of the NAACP.
Registration Leaders Urge
Immediate Push For Jobs
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needed to be said to make the
country realize that we are fac
ing a real danger. I think the
President is doing all he can
under the pre sent circumstanc
es.”
Dr. C.A. Bacote, co-chair
man of the All Citizens Regis-
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