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  • 4, 1963, is:=;w3 of "The Richmonrl. News Leader", a Richmond, Virginia> daily newspaper, repor·:;ec1 that G~orge Lincoln Ro~k~·rell h.:id, on the previous day, again .. applied for the American Nazi ?arty to be charte:-ed in the State of Virginia
  • . To Ford Hosp., cond.critical. Was stopped for a traffic light when an unkn number of thugs shot him and took his car. 96.• 5:00 PM 7/24 (Looter) ALPHONSO SMITH, 35/N, of 3455 W. Chicago. Fatally shot by DPD, Patr. Thomas Peterson, Prect. Unit #1, while
  • , THROUGH AUGUST31, 1964, AND YOUTHDISTURBANCES SEPTEMBER 4, 1964 1 THROUGH SEPTEUBER7, 1964 STA'£E OF NEW YORK New York City July 17 2 1964, through July 31, 1964 • Following the shooting of fifteen-year-old James :>owell, a Negro, in New York City
  • not have the election we want but it might be better than some we have - Powell in Harlem, or Daly in Chicago, or some Mexican border town. Rather asked about reports of new peace feelers - is there any daylight in sight now? The President said
  • to be desegregated with all deliberate speed. On December 1, 1955, a Negro seamstress named Rosa Parks was arrested when she refused to give up her seat to a white man on a M~ntgomery, Alabama, bus. When the news spread through the community, a young Negro minister
  • " indicated him to be a Negro, a new element of ·tension was injected into relations between the races. In December, 1966, a jazz musician named Posteal Laskey was arrested and charged with one of the murders. 1967 he was convicted and sentenced to death
  • will do so. .... S.., U.S. Sllfli•t,s BtmJs R11,tJMly tm tb, Pdpoll SMmt,s Pl1111 I 75 NEW BRUNSWICK All during the weekend that violence sputtered, · flared, subsided, then flared again in Plainfield, in New Brunswick, less than 10 miles away
  • map across the room. Curvin 10 & 11 p. 40 - Last paragraph. The carloads of police officers were not reinforcements; they were officers reporting in for a new shift. Melchior 8 p. 41 - First full paragraph. The molotov cocktails were thrown just