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SUPPORT NOT TOLERATED. Freedom Rider James Zwerg stands bleeding after an attack by white pro-segregationists at the greyhound bus terminal in Montgomery, Ala. Zwerg remained in the street for over an hour after the beating since "white ambulances" refused to treat him. (Bettman/Corbis photo)	The early 1960s Lunch-counter sit-ins and the Freedom Rides Spokane had a lot on its mind in the early 1960s. The city was bitterly arguing about changing its form of government. Front-page stories in The Spokesman-Review detailed claims of questionable work by a consultant hired to assess the impact of the change... ... Seldom reported in Page 1 headlines was the growing tension in the South that would produce one of the biggest cultural changes in 20th-century America. Read complete essay

In this report

Emelda and Manuel Brown

Flip Schulke

Ads in the newspaper

In the paper

A bumpy ride to freedom

Editorials from the early '60s

Letters to the editor

Off-site Links

Congress Of Racial Equality

African-American history

Greensboro Sit-ins

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A look back
Putting it in perspective

The newspaper advertising from 40 years ago tells a lot about our culture at that time. The radio listings were longer than the television listings; cigarette ads were big and glamorous. Prices seem unbelievably low. Advertisements for freak shows with midgets and characters such as Al Kluber "the rubber-faced man" appeared regularly.
These ads are reflections of what the world was like during the civil rights movement.

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