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Arizona Tribune
Phoenix, Maricopa County, Arizona
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In Reno, Nevada, Negro demonstrators staged a sit-in at a restaurant and picketed a bank in protest against a weakened civil rights bill. The action was halted after the state assembly restored some provisions, referring the bill back to the Senate for concurrence.
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Charles Keller, Las Vegas attorney and chief lobbyist for the Negroes, stopped the Reno demonstrations at the assembly restored some teeth to a mild compromise civil rights bill.
The bill was referred back to an apparently hostile Senate for concurrence in amendments.
The Reno parade of 35 Negroes was sparked by threat of an Assembly committee in amending a civil rights bill to leave out powers of subpoena from a proposed commission to study civil rights.
They crowded into the small Overland Restaurant at Reno and were refused breakfast. When they wouldn't leave, restaurant employes locked the door and posted a "closed for repairs" sign.
The demonstrators moved to a downtown bank of which State Sen. Rene Lemaire, a civil rights bill opponent, is a director.
Carrying signs reading "Bankers Are Prejudiced," the Negroes paraded until Keller sent word of the assembly action.
"They're going too far," said LeMaire. "To hell with any bill."
The current measure is the last in the series of progressively weaker substitute civil rights bills. It would be the first civil rights legislation of any kind in Nevada.
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Reno, Nev.
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demonstrations called off after assembly restored provisions to the civil rights bill, which was referred to the senate; no injuries or arrests reported.
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Negro demonstrators in Reno conducted a sit-in at the Overland Restaurant, where they were refused service and locked inside, then picketed a bank directed by Sen. Rene Lemaire, protesting amendments weakening a civil rights bill by removing subpoena powers from a proposed commission. Charles Keller halted the action upon the assembly's restoration of some bill provisions.