Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1960-03-11
THIRTY CITIES BRAcED BY
SIT DOMNERS M LUNCH
...-- COUNTERS or VARIETY STORE

(AssOClated Negro Press) ~ So
Chicago "sitdoWm". strike auspicous
launched early last month by Negro students NC.
protest against discriminatory practices
pected proportions that
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demonstrations being carried on in Il
stronghold segregahon-he South; quite
sympathy" demonstrations sprnging up n North.
The eversfng focal point Of the rested
Montgomery A where nine students Alabama
Wednesday taking part protests again
lunch counter typied this citys by
facilities IN ne county courthouse
suspension Pattersons
expelled governor
and said that all participants might deserve be expelled
because of mitigating circumstances which should be considered
The explosions officially ordered the
cation the Dr. H Council president Aaban
State college, for compliance
In other areas highly volatile situation is @ sticky viii
being any
that instead Of seeking solution the moduS operan Is to retat
Tuskegee ASe Of the controversy the gerry
Wandering Negroes OOde limits Negrt
students paradng the street sympathy protest to the actor
taken at Alabama State college.
Tuscaloosa FIa-Inactve Ku
called to active membership to with local and state police
cope with the stdowners
Negroes arrested
displaying advocating indignation In Negroes
NashveThe arrest 1s1 students charges Of d
orderly conduct resulted conviction of convco
of five Negroes and whites The fines ranged from 81
$50.
Chattanooga surface hung the city after police fir
and school officials establish secu
program designed prevent further clashes All students wheth
white Negro barred from the business section of town. und
disciplinary action Students
ecty patrol
that student violates the order
Tampa group Negroes attempted
obtain service at nine white lunch counters
restaurants but with results Of the eates sn
fused service.
demonstrations Petersburg Dayton
Beach, Fla, failed to win a reversal Of policy.
Orangeburg C-FoIowng earlier white
Negro for fighting during sdown demonstration some 40 ST.
dents armed with signs staged slow silent march trous
students from South Carolina State and Cafn
leges, spoke to during the line Of march
Columbia, SEA- passed Wi
gnia approved by Judiciary committee
week. subject a 800
jail
Denmark. sc-TwO drugstOres by ST
Voorhees, Junior college last week. and refuse
police who took the students into cstot
turned them to school officials
GreenvIne, public library staged
accompanied by Kay Baptist
There disorder and the stayed about so minutes
Kill, sC-Whie Negroes calling for economic bo
peng operated segregated eating ia
iites ROBBED but unased xxx parade was staged through
simultaneously Friendship college received
anonymous telephone discovered
Fevwnavoeo NC-A advisory appoints
mayor study problem w
launched the sit-down movement.
Durham, NC-A white girl charged with assault ant
a lunch
Henderson NC-A day boycott deparme
stores by NAACP branch.
Shelby attempt the mpasse created by
own strike made by white and Negro leaders but ha
way made
Salem NC-The protest against
pulpt Negro ministers urged
cooperate with NAACP request boycott all sor
that denied them lunch counter service.
Fayetteville NC-To dmsOre lunch counters close
following resumption Negroes Of their protest agans
Monroe High students put protest demo
which forced two close their lunch counters
Richmond VaThirty four demonstrations arrested for
fng department after being refused
counter service.
Suffolk vaThe city ordinance requiring permits for publ
meetings unconstitutional" according to
The ACIU referring to the
for Swns Peoples Service Drug store and F.
wooworth company store.
Petersburg vaThe public library of sit down" Protes
public control the city council refuses to integral
library donated IS private individual WI
stipulated separate facilities maintained for whites
Negroes
Madison, University Wisconsin students undertook
the the capital protest
ion incidents IN South
Chcago-The downtown s. W. wooworth store picked b
coegAns sympathy for the arrest Of students
Nashville, Tenn
picetngs the University Colorad
universal
students New Brunswick, NJ.
Knoxville Tenn group met with the mayor in
Attempt To Fool Aff'r Thomas 70 Of .1s iSlsha