To the Jails

Police and jailers across the South did a bustling business last week as Negroes organized new sit-in demonstrations in a dozen cities:

P: In Atlanta, seven Negro clergymen and one white minister got themselves arrested by sitting-in at the city's segregated railroad Terminal Station restaurant to draw attention to 76 Negro students already jailed. The ministers satin behind bars for 24 hours, then posted bond, deciding that they could do more good outside.

P:In Sumter, S.C., local and state police mustered in regimental proportions to block the path of angry Negro students at Morris College (Baptist) who intended to march downtown protesting the earlier arrest of seven students and one faculty member. After a tense impasse when patrol cars twice stopped the marchers at campus gates, the students dispersed.

P:In Columbia, South Carolina's capital, 150 Negro students from Allen University and Benedict College forced three lunch counters to close, were seated but refused service at two others.

P: In Nashville, Negro students continued to clog ticket-window lines as they besieged segregated movie houses for the third straight week without success, but were surprised to receive courteous service for the first time at a bus-station restaurant.

P:In Lynchburg, Va.. girls from all-white Sweet Briar women's college picketed drugstores with segregated lunch counters, as six other white and Negro students, including two white girls from similarly fashionable Randolph Macon, began the second week of 30-day trespassing sentences for earlier sit-ins at the counters.

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