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DR. KING TO STIR THOUSANDS
IN SUNDAY MARCH ON ATLANTA
THE
TLANTA INQUIRER
"To seek out the Truth and report it without Fear or Favor"
ATLANTA, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 14,1913
Sleep-Ins May Offer Suit Support
Rev. Ralph D. Abernathy and Larry Fox, leaders of Operation Breadbasket and the local Student
Movement, respectively, told the Inquirer, their groups might find it necessary to re-enforce a suit
filed this week against a local motel by staging a “sleep-in” at the motel.
On Monday, December 9,
a suit against Holiday Im Down
town charging that they were
illegally denied accommoda
tions on September 4, 1963
though they had confirmed re
servations.
The motor inn is located
on Urban Renewal land where it
was constructed after the ex
penditure of more than $4 mil
lion in public funds subject to
a stimulation that the land would
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not be developed with restric
tions “upon the basis of race,
creed, or color in sale, lease,
or occupancy there of.” This
is, of course, the basis of the
pending suit.
The suit points out that ap
proximately 80% of the land in
the project area was owned or
occupied by Negroes before the
Atlanta Housing Authority ac
quired the land under its pow-
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Voter Worker Escapes Death
In "Terrible Terrell” County
House Shot Up, Bombed
Woman Struck In Foot
Thirty-three years old Mrs.
Carolyn Daniels who has lodged
SNCC voter registration work
ers and has herself been active
in the vote campaign in Daw
son, “terrible Terrell” County,
Georgia, narrowly escaped
death the last week-end as her
house was pelted with bullets
and blasted by a bomb. At
home when the shooting occur
ed, Mrs. Daniels was struck in
the left foot and right leg. She
had gone to the hospital for
treatment when her house was
wricked by the bomb.
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inquirer Xmai Jund 63
Last Week’s Balance $103.00
The Moss Kendrix Organization $25.00
Mr. & Mrs. Jesse Hill, Jr $25.00
Attorney & Mrs. R.E. Thomas $15.00
Mr. Oss W. Parrott
Miss Kathy Scott, Fifth Avenue Beauty Shop $5.00
Dimery’s Business College, Mrs.Dimery Dir $5.00
Emmanuel Baptist,Church,Rev.B.W. Bickers, Pas. $5.00
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Moreland Funeral Home
Rev. & Mrs. J.A. Middleton $ 5 - 00
Mrs. Jondelle Johnson ...•••• $5.00
8.8. Beamon’s Restaurant s s ’ oo
55 00
Mrs. Ruth Sturdevant •
, $5.00
A Friend • * * *
55 00
Mr. & Mrs.W.O.Macomson
Mr. Willie Ludden, Field Secretary N A ACP s s «°°
Miss Inez Walker, Angier A venue Beauty Shop.. . . $5.00
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Views Bombed Home
GENERAL PUBLIC INVITED
BY CHARLES A.BLACK
Local civil rights leaders are predicting that, with favorable
weather conditions, an even greater number than the 10,000 At
-I’antans sought for the “Pilgrimage For Democracy” will be on
hand Sunday to demonstrate support of demands for complete and
immediate desegregation of Atlanta. Predictions are based chief
ly upon three factors, the Inquirer learned.
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Atty. A. F. Walden
Clark College Senior
Shot, Raped
A 22-year-old Senior major
ing in Sociology at Clark Col
lege, stepped off the bus on
Fairburn Place approximately
a block and a half from her
home into the unknown arms
of an assailant. She was able
to identify him as about 25
years of age weighing about 175
lbs, dressed neatly and speak
ing intelligently.
He made threats to her and
attempted to frighten her by
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CAPS AND RECAPS
A LONE NEGRO WOMAN
WASHINGTON - A lone Negro women was singularly honored
on Thanksgiving eve as she was quietly escorted into the House
gallery before President Johnson spoke, and seated directly
behind the First Lady of the land, ivirs. Lady Bird Johnson.
NEW YORK NEGRO FIRST APPOINTEE
NEW YORK - The appointment of Joseph E. Davis as a trustee
of Knickerbocker hospital was announced here last week. Davis
is the hospital’s first Negro trustee.
36-MAN NEGRO POUCE RESERVE FORMED
MONTGOMERY, ALA. - The police department plans to form
a 36-man Negro Police Reserve. Police Commissioner L.B.
Sullivan and Chief W.M. Stanley said the unit, identical to white
reserve units.
RUMORS ABOUT ROWAN
WASHINGTON - Rumors circulated in last week that Carl
Rowan, United States ambassador to Finland, might be named by
President Lyndon Johnson as White House press secretary,
displacing Pierre Salinger, who served under President Kennedy.
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The key factor is that Dr.
Martin Luther King, Jr. who
stirred 250,000 Americans In
Washington, D.C. has consent
ed to be the main speaker for
the occasion.
Ministers of all major chur
ches in the Negro community
plan to encourage their wor
shippers to go directly to Hurt
Park from morning services
for the massive assembly -
a fact which is expected to
account for more than 10,000
participants in itself.
The other factor is that, ac
cording to authoritative sources
all colleges in the Atlanta Uni
versity and the Interdenomina
tional Theological Center - will
move their dinner schedules
back to 12;00 in order to make
it convenient for the students to
participate in the Pilgrimage.
There are a total of some 4,500
students enrolled in the A.U.
Center. Summit leaders have
praised the college presidents
for their active support of the
desegregation program.
Students are expected to as
semble in the area of the col-
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