March 10, 1957 (vol. 67, iss. 116) • Page Image 1
… the ink was hardly dry on his signature on the new Middle East resolution when Israeli Am- .CAIRO, Egypt ()-President Gamal Nasser told Palestinian students from Gaza yesterday Arab nationalism had…
…, on Mat, in Gym -4', Mississippi State Board Fires Otis Alcorn's Striking Students Expelled By The Associates Press JACKSON, Miss. - An all-white Mississippi State College Board yesterday expelled…
… the striking stu- * dents at all-Negro Alcorn A&M~ College and fired J. R. Otis as president. The Board met in emergency session following reports that all of the approximately 585 students of Alcorn…
…, Miss., A&M College left the campus Friday after failing tc get the resignation of Prof. Glen- non King of the history depart- ment. Approximately 95 students were reported to have returned to classes…
… immediately." Prof. J. D. Boyd, ' previously named to succeed Otis, was put in charge. All students who "defied" the board's order to return to classes were expelled. The announcement made no reference to King…
…, whose articles were blamed by the students for the walkout. King dealt with segregation in his articles and criticized the Na- tional Association for the Advance- ment of Colored People for having done…
… nothing locally for Southern Negroes. Attacked NAACP The students accused King of getting the college into a contro- versial situation by writing a series of articles in which he attacked the NAACP, and…
…" by his discharge as head of the 86-year-old land-grant col- lege. He had recommended King's dismissal on grounds similar to the students' complaints - that King had involved the college in contro…
…- versial issues. Otis said 489 of the 561 students had signed "final withdrawal" slips but a number had asked to retract that action. Otis told reporters an undeter- mined number of students, possibly as…
… liberated the Gaza Strip and "will help us win back all of Palestine." Nasser spoke to a thousand students who assembled at the presidential palace to hail the president as the liberator of Gaza and to demand…

















































