Rowan College - Oak Yearbook (Glassboro, NJ)

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Erhard Succeeds Adenauer Pearson Succeeds Dieffenbaker Pope Paul VI Elected By College of Cardinals Eshkol Succeeds Ben Gurion Home Succeeds MacMillan Supreme Court Bans Compulsory Prayer and Bible Reading State and local regulations requiring recitation of the Lord ' s Prayer or Bible reading in public schools were found by the U. S. Supreme Court to be in violation of the First Amendment to the Constitution.

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Gordon Cooper Orbits Earth 22 Times in Longest and Final Flight of Project Mercury The U. S. pursued its conquest over space by orbiting the ten-ton Saturn rocket, the heaviest space craft successfully launched by any nation. This accomplishment was followed within a week by the launching of a moon rocket which was hailed a successful failure. The rocket did hit the moon but the 3,000 promised photographs did not hit the earth. U.S. -Soviet Cooperate on Suspension of Nuclear Tests U.S.-Soviet EstabHsh Hot Line U.S.-Soviet Cooperate on Echo II U.S. -Soviet Agree on Wheat Sales 6

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We shall overcome, we shall overcome, We shall overcome some day, Oh, deep in my heart I do believe We shall overcome some day. FOUR GIRLS MURDERED IN BIRMINGHAM BOMBING Charles Morgan, Birmingham attorney, ex- plained responsibility for racial violence: It is every Senator and every Representative who, in the halls of Congress, stands and with mock hu- mility tells the world that things back home aren ' t really like they are. It is courts that move ever so slowly and newspapers that timorously defend the law. It is all of the Christians and all their ministers who spoke too late in anguished cries against the violence. It is the coward in each of us who clucks admonitions. The truth will make us free, the truth will make us free, The truth will make us free some day. Oh, deep in my heart I do believe We shall overcome some day. 200. 000 March For Civil Rights In Orderly Washington Rally; President Sees Gain For Negro Washington was the scene of the nation ' s big- gest demonstration ever held in support of civil rights. On August 28, one hundred years and 240 days after Abraham Lincoln enjoined the emancipated slaves to abstain from all violence and labor faithfully for reasonable wages, more than 200,000 people peacefully and orderly, marched in the nation ' s capitol and proclaimed that they were still waiting for freedom and jobs. The participants came from all over the nation and included many well-known personalities. President Kennedy gave full support to the dem- onstration. We are not afraid, we are not afraid. We are not afraid today, Oh, deep in my heart I do believe We shall overcome some day. Medgar Evers, Regional Director of NAACP, Murdered in Mississippi went up to the troopers And said, Please let me in. And all their guns were pointed At the color of my skin. Governor Wallace Bars Entry of Negroes to Unive rsity of Alabama U.S. NUCLEAR SUBMARINE THRESHER LOST WITH 129 MEN ABOARD We shall overcome, we shall overcome, We shall overcome some day, Oh, deep in my heart I do believe We shall overcome some day.