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Negroes Go To Churches (Rec. 8 p.m.) ATLANTA- (Georgia), August 8. Negroes demonstrated in Atlanta yesterday for the right to attend Sunday church services with white people. The students began a new type of protest against race segregation—a “kneel-in” instead of a “sit-in.” A total of 25 college students, including a few whites, spread out among a number of Atlanta churches and took part in services at six churches whose congregations are normally all white. This latest anti-segregation move came after many demonstrations throughout the Southern States in recent months in which negroes have quietly sat at segregated lunch counters and in restaurants, and even libraries, asserting their right to have service.
No trouble was reported at any of the churches—of various denominations—where the negroes joined the services. Miss Jane Stembridge, who helped plan the “kneel-ins,” said the new form of protest would be undertaken in future weeks throughout the South. The demonstrators were turned away at two churches. Miss Stembridge said the negro students were well received at the other churches.
They were turned away, she said, at the First Baptist Church and the Druid Hills Baptist Church.
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Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29278, 9 August 1960, Page 13
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