Evening star., 1960-03-06
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In Negro Riot;
Tensions Rise
BY che Associated Press

By che Associated Press
Fifty club-wielding Negroes
Eerrorized a white drive-in at
Columbia, s. c., yesterday in
the latest outbreak of violence
accompanying demonstrations
against segregated lunch coun-
tiers.
An already tense situation in
Montgomery. Ala. worsened
last night with an announce
ment that police would break
up any attempt by Negroes to
hold a mass protest meeting on
the State Capitol grounds to-
day.
Police arrested four Negro
students from Allen University
In the flare-up at Columbia.
All were released when officers
said no evidence was found to
connect them with the dis
turbance.
The Negroes invaded the
drive-in about 3:45 am, say
ing they were going to take
over the place. They battered
several cars with clubs and
bricks. A white woman in one
car. was injured slightly by
flying glass.
Police Ban Meeting
A Negro spokesman said
groups Of white and Negro.
students hurled bricks during
the night near the campuses
Of Allen University and Ben
edict College, Negro institu-
tions.
Police Commissioner L. B.
Sullivan of Montgomery is
sued the ban against the Ne
groes' Sunday meeting. He did
30 after a group of white men
and women drove along the
streets displaying signs urging
economic retaliation against
the Negroes.
Mr.. Sullivan's statement said
We are not going to have any
furth her demonstrations by
white or Negroes in the city
OF Montgomery that would
tend to create further racial
tensions, today. tomorrow, next
week, or hereafter"
The prayer meeting is sched-
uled for leo pm. Sunday.
1t was c2lled by the Rev.
Ralph D. Abernathy after an
estimated 900 Negro students at
Alabama State College renewed
their support of a mass walk
out when spring registration
begins tomorrow. The strike
was proposed in protest against
expulsion of nine students who
led earlier student demonstra-
tons.
Convicted in Richmond
Three more negro students
were convicted and each fined
$40 in Richmond, Va, for tres
passing in a downtown depart
ment store. The hearing was
marked by heated exchanges
between opposing attorneys.
Cases of 81 other negroes ar
rested at the same time were
continued until April 1918.
Four others were convicted
Friday.
Meanwhile, several negroes
and a few white students
picketed the store, urging a
boycott.
Harlem Groups Picket
In New York more than 400
pickets marched outside a
Woolworth store near Herald
Square yesterday in support of
Southern Negro student "sit-in"
demonstrations.
The pickets then marched
down Fifth avenue to WASH
ington Square Park for a rally,
where they stood shivering in
the cold to cheer speeches sup
porting the Southern youths.
Meanwhile, nine Negro stu
dents from the South held a
press conference in Harlem, and
then joined a picket line outside
q Harlem Wooiworth store.
At the downtown variety
store, one of the largest in the
city and adjacent to major de-
partment stores, most OF the
pickets were white, with a
smattering of Negroes.
Picketing in Boston
White and Negro boy and
girl college students and others
picketed F. w. Woolworth
stores in the Greater Boston
area, carrying signs and passing
out leaflets.
The signs and leaflets car
ried such messages as: "Will
you buy in Northern Wool
worths while Southern Wool
worths segregated"
A spokesman for the pickets
said the students were from
Boston University, Harvard,
Brandeis and Massachusetts,
Institute of Technology.
The first Negro graduate of
Central High School at Little
Rock, Ark, led peaceful pick
ct line demonstration in 1T
Lansing, Mich, protesting ra-
cial segregation
He was Ernest Green, one of
several Negro strd
1857 enrolment in the then
white Little Rock Hign School
resulted in racial violence.
Green, president of the Mich
igan State University chapter
of the National Association for
the Advancement of Colored
People, led the picketing of an
S. S. Kresge variety store be-
cause chain members in the
South won't serve Negroes.
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