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  NAACP Exec Assails Chester Council

  Article from the Swarthmore Phoenix published on October 26, 1962 reporting on the executive director of the Chester National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), Stanley Branche, and his comments to Chester city council and students participating in the Chester Tutorial Project. He asks city council to address unfair employment practices and discriminatory housing against Black residents, and their responses are disclosed. To those involved in the Chester Tutorial Project, Branche predicts that the Chester school administration will eventually support the project.

  Tags 1962, Asbury AME Church, Chester City Council, Chester NAACP, Chester PA, Chester Tutorial project, Cheyney State College, NAACP Youth Council, Public opinion, Racial discrimination, Stanley Branche, Swarthmore College, Tutoring
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  Marshals in Mississippi

  Article from The Swarthmore Phoenix published on September 25, 1962 announcing that U.S. federal marshals would be deployed to enforce public school integration in order to protect civil rights. This news is shared in relation to James Meredith being escorted onto the campus of Ole Miss in order to protect any violation of his civil rights as he became the first Black student on its campus. The article discusses this shift in U.S. federal law and enforcement away from protecting segregation and toward enforcing integration.
  
  

  Tags 1962, Civil rights movement, Education, Freedom Riders, Integration, James Meredith, Law enforcement, Public opinion, Segregation, University of Mississippi