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...Alabama dealer says his sales are off 50%, attributes part of that drop to the boycott. Says he: "If somebody says something about it-even a friend-and you deny it, they just smile at you." Adds W. M. Turner, a dealer in Selma, Ala.: "The criticism of the whites-and I'm sur prised at some of the intelligent people involved-hurts, and we haven't got the Negro trade, so you can see how it is." Ford efforts to combat the criticism have been less than successful. The Memphis assembly plant, for example, began pasting...
Whether law and order will actually prevail if Autherine comes back, no one could tell. Led by a racist sophomore from Selma, Ala. named Leonard Wilson, a Tuscaloosa White Citizens' Council was determined to do everything possible to keep her away. But Autherine herself was equally determined. While waiting for the courts to hear the contempt charge she filed against the university trustees for suspending her, she has been living and studying at nonsegregated Talladega College (enrollment 275), 118 miles from Tuscaloosa. She has even turned down a scholarship offer from the University of Copenhagen. Said she: "I keep...
...Selma Hopf Jillson, Adams ambles upstairs to his study where he broadcasts over Station KRNL ten minutes each morning-a word on the news or the weather, a passage from Scripture, occasionally a poem on a religious theme...
FRED CRUIKSHANK Selma...
They are Joel E. Gordon '52, of Berkeley, California, and Lowell House; Garth C. Grissom 1L, of Syracuse, Kansas; Calvin S. Hamilton 3G, of Cambridge; Ernest B. Johnston '52, of Selma, Alabama, and Kirkland House; and Gareth Matthews 1G. of Franklin, Indiana...