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1960 Marshall, Texas & Baton Rouge racial protests...
1960 Marshall, Texas & Baton Rouge racial protests...
Item # 722163
March 31, 1960
THE SPRINGFIELD UNION, Mass., March 31, 1960
* Marshall, Texas & Baton Rouge, Louisiana
* Negroes - college students - lunch counter protests
* Civil Rights Movement - against segregation
The front page has a four column headline: "250 NEGROES SEIZED AS FIRE HOSES HALT TEX. RACE FLAREUP" with subheads. (see images)
Complete with 52 pages, light toning at the margins, nice condition.
background: In late March 1960, both Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and Marshall, Texas, saw significant African American student protests against segregation, though the nature of the events differed. In Baton Rouge, students from Southern University staged sit-ins at whites-only lunch counters and bus station waiting rooms on March 28–29; after several arrests, hundreds of students marched to the state capitol on March 30 to protest, maintaining nonviolent discipline and drawing attention to the injustice of segregation. In contrast, Marshall, Texas, experienced more confrontational demonstrations around the same time: students from Wiley and Bishop Colleges conducted sit-ins at downtown lunch counters, and as police arrested groups of protestors, crowds gathered on the courthouse steps, eventually prompting authorities to use fire hoses to disperse the demonstrators. While Baton Rouge’s actions remained largely peaceful, the Marshall protests escalated into a tense confrontation with law enforcement, highlighting both the courage of young activists and the harsh resistance they faced across the South during the early civil rights movement.
Category: The 20th Century
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