Vol. 71/No. 10      March 12, 2007

He had disappeared in August. Jackson was on leave from the Army. By the time the protesters reached Monroe the march had swelled to over 2,000.

Rising anger among Walton county residents forced officials to impanel a jury to investigate the cause of death.  
 
March 11, 1957
The fight to end segregation in the New York schools registered an important victory Feb. 28 when the Board of Education accepted the Zoning and Teachers Assignment reports of its subcommittee, the Commission on Integration, and thereby approved in principle a program to equalize educational opportunities for Negroes and other minority groups in the city.

Under the insistent pressure of parent groups and civic and religious organizations, these reports were unanimously accepted in spite of opposition from supporters of the Jim Crow system, some of the daily papers and the leaders of some teachers' organizations.  
 
March 12, 1932
On Monday, March 7, Ford's cossacks fired on a crowd of jobless workers demonstrating before his plant at Dearborn, Michigan. Four workers were shot and killed because they had come to demand from the apostle of "class peace" work, a chance to earn their living.

The demonstrators, upon the call of the Unemployment Council of Detroit, were marching in orderly fashion and had intended sending up a committee to the management of the Ford plant, to present their demands. Ford, the idol of the post war social democracy and all the other preachers of class collaboration, the symbol of "Americanization," immediately ordered his gunmen to pour lead into the masses calling for work and bread.  
 
 
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