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Jackson Advocate
Jackson, Hinds County, Mississippi
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On Dec. 12, 1961, a bomb damaged an empty Black school in Atlanta amid peaceful desegregation protests, following a Sunday march of 2,000. Related arrests in Macon; planned demos in Athens for UGA court hearing. No injuries.
Merged-components note: Continuation of the New Race Violence story across pages 1 and 2; relabeled the continuation from 'story' to 'domestic_news' for consistency as it covers U.S. racial integration violence.
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Atlanta, Ga. Dec. 12 - Violence broke the tense calm of peaceful racial demonstrations in Atlanta today.
A dynamite bomb damaged an unoccupied Negro school, shattering windows and partially wrecking two classrooms and the auditorium. There were no clues. The school and neighborhood had reported no recent troubles.
The incident followed a sunrise prayer meeting and a mass march through downtown Atlanta Sunday by Negroes peacefully demonstrating for desegregation.
New demonstrations were reported being planned in Athens, Ga., home of the University of Georgia, where a federal court hearing is scheduled to determine
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New Race . . (Continued from Page One) Tuesday whether the all-white state university must desegregate. In Atlanta, an estimated 2,000 Negroes turned out for a rainy sunrise prayer service at a football stadium and then marched three miles to the strains of "Onward Christian Soldiers" to a downtown rally. The only arrests of weekend demonstrators were in Macon, Ga. 90 miles south of Atlanta where three Negro students from Atlanta were held briefly following their refusal to get out of a line at a white cafeteria when their bus made a lunch stop.
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Domestic News Details
Primary Location
Atlanta, Ga.
Event Date
Dec. 12
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school damaged with shattered windows and partial wrecking of two classrooms and auditorium; no injuries; three negro students held briefly in macon.
Event Details
A dynamite bomb damaged an unoccupied Negro school in Atlanta, shattering windows and partially wrecking two classrooms and the auditorium, with no clues or recent troubles reported. This followed a sunrise prayer meeting and mass march through downtown Atlanta on Sunday by Negroes demonstrating for desegregation, with an estimated 2,000 participants marching three miles to a rally. New demonstrations planned in Athens, Ga., ahead of a federal court hearing on Tuesday to determine if the University of Georgia must desegregate. In Macon, Ga., three Negro students from Atlanta were briefly arrested for refusing to leave a white cafeteria line during a bus lunch stop.