Chattanooga News-Free Press
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Series of Chattanooga News-Free Press clippings about the Chattanooga Sit-ins and desegregation actions in February 1960. a) "Revises Petition On Court Stand" Details a revised Congressional petition by Charles Ballinger, and supported by J. P. McCallie, charging the Supreme Court with over-reach in its 1955 school desegregation ruling. February 5, 1960. b1,2) "Negroes 'Sit Down' Here; No Incident, No Service" Details the actions of 30 Howard School students sitting at the lunch counters of F. W. Woolworth and McLellan Stores. Additional information about other lunch counter sit ins in the South. February 20, 1960. c1,2) "About 200 Negroes In Sitdowns at Four Stores" Details the actions of 200 students sitting at the lunch counters of F. W. Woolworth, McLellan Stores, W. T. Grant Co., and S. H. Kress & Co. February 23, 1960. d1,2) "200 Negro Students Sit Down At 4 Stores" Details the actions of 200 students sitting at the lunch counters of F. W. Woolworth, McLellan Stores, W. T. Grant Co., and S. H. Kress & Co. February 23, 1960. e) "The Sitdown" Two photographs, one showing a mostly unoccupied lunch counter for "Negroes," the other shows the white lunch counter with African American students sitting at it. There is a sign on that counter saying it is closed. February 23, 1960. f1,2) "Negroes Seek Admission To city White Schools Now" Details the request by James R. Mapp, Josephine Maxey, Rev. H. H. Kirnon to move their children to Glenwood School and to immediately and totally integrate Chattanooga...
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