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These local southern organizations targeted blacks who joined the NAACP creating barriers to mortgages, jobs and voter registration. Members of these organizations were more upwardly mobile than their KKK counterparts (wikipedia). The first councils formed after Brown but grew in 1955 after Montgomery.
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AG performs for the College Women's Extravaganza.
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A nationwide inoculation program begins using Salk's polio vaccine.
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AG finishes the semester and her teaching career.
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Several eastern bloc countries signed the Warsaw Pact as a counterpoint to NATO. This encouraged a greater push by the USIA to increase worldwide propaganda, including the Goodwill Tours.
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Bethune, founder of Bethune-Cookman, dies in Daytona Florida.
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Mixed doubles:
S. AG/Whirlwind defeat Ferguson/McGriff; 6-1, 6-2
F. AG/Whirlwind defeat Beverley Coleman/Babe Jones; 6-2, 6-3
Chicago Defender 16 July; Alabama Tribune 15 July. -
Women's singles:
S.AG defeats Carmen Lampe; score unk
F.AG defeats Ivy Cover-Ramsey: 6-0, 7-5.
New York Age 26 July. -
Women's singles:
F. AG defeats June Kroeger
Ladies doubles:
F. (?) AG/Ivy Cover d Isabel Troccole/JK
Chicago Defender 23 July;
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Singles:
1. AG d. Alice Gottshall; 6-0, 6-1
2. AG d. Ruth Jeffrey; 6-2, 6-1
3. AG d. Kay Hubbell; 6-3, 6-4
Q. AG d. Darlene Hard; 6-2, 11-9
S. AG d. Janet Hopps;
F. Louise Brough d. AG; 1-6, 6-2, 6-1
Doubles:
1. AG/Kurt Nielson D. Railey/Jessup; 6-0, 6-1
2. AG/KN d. Ruth Jeffrey/Clothier; 6-3, 6-4
Q.AG/KN d. Belmar Gunderson/Hal Burrows
S. AG/KN d. JHopps/Jerry Moss; 6-4, 6-3
F. AG/Kurt Nielson d. Yola Ramirez/Sammy Giamaiva; 6-8, 6-4, 6-2
Philadelphia Inquirer 19-24 July; Daily Press 25 July -
Women's singles:
1. AG d. Julia Kurtz; 6-0, 6-1.
2. AG d. Sally Lied; 6-2, 6-0.
S. AG d. Mary Albright; 6-2, 6-4
F. AG defeats Alice Fehrenbach: 6-1, 6-1.
Mixed doubles:
Q.Bill Davis/AG d. Harold Fellenbaum/Janet Genberling; 6-0, 6-2.
S. BD/AG d. Fred Steinman/Mary Albright; 6-4, 6-4.
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Women's singles:
3. AG d. Lois Felix; 3-6, 7-5, 6-3
Q. AG d. Rosa Maria Reyes; 6-3, 6-0
S. Barbara Breitt d. AG; 6-3, 6-0
Women's doubles:
F. BB/DHard d. AG/DKnode; 6-4, 10-8
Tampa Tribune 05 & 07 Aug; Hartford Courant 07 Aug, NY Amsterdam News 13 Aug -
Women's singles:
3. AG defeats Dorothy Lopez; 6-1, 6-0
Q. AG defeats Rosemary Darden; 6-0, 6-1
S. AG defeats Jean Glover; 6-1, 6-3
F. AG defeats Nana Vaughan; 6-3, 6-0 (9th consecutive win for AG)
Mixed doubles:
F. AG/Whirlwind defeat Nana & Quentin Vaughan; 6-3, 0-6, 6-3
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Emmett Louis Till was a 14-year-old African American who was lynched in Mississippi in 1955, after being accused of offending a white woman in her family's grocery store.
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After the 1955 murder of Emmett Till, several gentlemen of the Benton County area were lynched in association with Till’s death. Oliver Maxey, the Panam Brothers, John Henry Remmer, and Jones and Hugh Smith were lynched.
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Women's singles:
1. AG d. Sara Mae Turber; 6-3, 6-2
2. AG d. Nell Hopman; 6-3, 6-1
3. Beverly Fleitz d. AG; 6-2, 6-2
Afro American 17 Sep; Hartford Courant 05 & 08 Sep -
Singles:
Q. AG d. Karol Fageros; 6-4, 7-5.
S. Angela Mortimer d. AG: 16-14, 6-1
Doubles:
Q. AG/Karol Fageros d. Mary Ann Mitchell/Rosa Maria Reyes; 2-6, 6-2, 6-3.
S. Buxton/Mortimer d. AG/KF; 7-5, 6-1
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The Vietnam War, also known as the Second Indochina War, and in Vietnam as the Resistance War Against America or simply the American War, was a conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975.
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AG is selected by the US State Dept. to participate in a Far East Goodwill Tour. She arrives in London from NY on Nov 30 staying at the Hotel Washington.
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Rosa Louise McCauley Parks was an American activist in the civil rights movement best known for her pivotal role in the Montgomery bus boycott. Four days after her arrest the year long boycott started. The United States Congress has called her "the first lady of civil rights" and "the mother of the freedom movement".
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AG arrives in Rangoon and stays at Hotel Strand.
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AG arrives in Calcutta Dec 10 and stays at the Great Eastern Hotel.
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Women's singles:
Q(?). AG d. Mrs. Taqi Butt; 6-0, 6-0.
S. AG d. ABuxton; 6-3, 6-4.
F. AG d. Saichiko Kamo: 6-2, 6-2
Doubles:
F. AG/KF d. Pat Ward/AB; 6-1, 6-4.
Mixed doubles (I think it was a final):
F. Ham Richardson/AG d. R. Krishnan/T. Zehdon; 6-3, 6-1
Baton Rouge Advocate 15 Dec. -
AG arrives in New Delhi and stays at the Imperial or Maiden Hotels. However, she must have arrived earlier for the All India tournament on Dec 18.
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AG stays at Faletti Hotel.
Nov 15 itinerary -
AG arrives back in New Delhi. Nov 15 Itinerary indicates there may be a change in schedule at this point. Great Eastern Hotel.
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Local Atlanta physician, Hamilton Holmes, sued Atlanta to desegregate the city's public golf courses. The US Supreme Court ruled in Hamilton's favor and public golf courses, like Bobby Jones Municipal Golf Course, were opened to all.