CHICAGO SIT-IN
Protest By Negroes
fA'.Z Press Assn.—Copyright/ CHICAGO. July 18 An eight-day “stt-in” by negroes in the Board of Education buildings was broken up by police today after violence
flared last night. Seven men and two women were picked up bodily and taken to police trucks.
The sit-in erupted into violence last night when about 200 pickets tried to break through police lines and enter the Board of Education building
Five persons—four policemen and a 10-year-old girl—were injured in the melee and three demonstrators were arrested. The sit-in demonstrators were protesting at racial segregation in public schools. Two of the nine arrested this morning—a man and a woman—were white
All nine were charged with unlawful assembly and criminal trespass. , Negro leaders of the Congress of Racial Equality threatened to try to breach the police guard and get back into the building.
Malaya Stocks.—The Bank of England announced today that a £5 million issue of Federation of Malaya stock was closed, over-subscribed. —(London. July 19.)
No Profumo Jokes.—The REC has banned all jokes oi remarks about Mr John Profumo. Miss Christine Keeler and Dr Stephen Ward from television and radio shows, the “Daily Mirror" reported.—(London, July 19.)
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30188, 20 July 1963, Page 11
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