Page 8 university Daily Kansan Wednesday, Nov. 9. 1960
Students Picket Lawrence Polls
White and Negro students from KU marched under cold gray skies on election day as they demonstrated for "meaningful" civil rights action.
The march was held by members of the Civil Rights Council.
The group assembled at Allen Field House at 4 p.m. and marched through the streets to Lawrence High School where voting was taking place.
They filed back and forth in two groups around the school, carrying signs saying:
"Civil Rights Promises Must Be
Come Realities . . . Make Lawrence Great, Don't Discriminate . . .
This is a Non-Violent Demonstration" and others.
"This is to remind them to keep their campaign promises," he said.
The march was part of a national rally for student action on Election Day. The idea originated in Atlanta, Ga., on Oct. 14-16 at a Student Nonviolent Coordinating Conference.
Bruce E. Wright, Salina sophomore and temporary chairman of the KU civil rights group, said that the action was intended to let candidates know that people are interested in civil rights.
After a half hour at the high school, the group decided to demonstrate at the Lawrence Community Building, another polling place.
Onlookers craned their necks to read the signs. They peered from
Negro Students Arrested in South
JACKSON, Tenn. — (UPI) — Between 150 and 170 Negro college students were arrested here yesterday while parading to the Madison County Courthouse.
The Negroes, said to be from Lane College here, were carrying signs reading "We want to see Negroes free to vote in Haywood and Favette counties."
The two west Tennessee counties have been the object of federal investigations because Negroes complained they were not permitted to register to vote.
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A five-year-old boy on Art Linkletter's "House Party" was asked what the political parties in the United States were. His reply was, "There is the American Party made up of Americans—and then there is the Catholic Party."
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"Are they for the Democrats or what?" said an 11-year-old boy to his sister as the group passed them. them.
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The group marched at the Community Center until dark.
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"The march was carried out at the proper time and from the wary glances we received the march was effective," Edward McMullan, Long Beach, N.Y. senior, said.
Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors of bullets. —Abraham Lincoln
A review of the recent University IBM poll shows that Republican John Anderson was selected to oust twice-elected George Docking in the gubernatorial race.
Campus Poll Predicted Anderson to Win
This poll involved 758 students in undergraduate political science classes. Anderson received 78.5 per
cent of the students' votes to Docking's 21.5 per cent.
By party, 92 per cent of the Republican students supported Anderson while only 42 per cent of the Democrat backed Doeing.
She Casts 1st Vote — At 86
The two-party system is an illusion. —Fred Baxter
VENTURA, Calif.,—(UPI)—Mrs. Lucy Peddicord, 86, cast her vote for the first time in her life today and had her son point out "the spot for John Fitzgerald Kennedy."
Mrs. Pedicord's husband, John, died two years ago and "always took care of politics in the family. Now it's up to me," she said.
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