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Francisco R. Rodriguez G., Senator, Espaillat Province;

Juan Bautista Rojas, Senator, Salcedo Province;

Luis Santiago Peguero Moscuso, Deputy, Independence

Province;

Maximo Federico Smester, Senator, Montecristi Prov

ince;

Jose Benjamin Uribe Macias, Deputy, Independence

Province;

Andres Nicolas Sosa, Senator, Santiogo Rodriguez

Province;

Jose Olivo Garcia, Deputy, Julia Molina Province;

Jesus Mario Troncoso, Senator, San Rafael Province;

Ramon Menendez, Deputy, Julia Molina Province;

Jose A. Turull Ricart, Senator, Somana Province;

Jose A. Castellanos, Deputy, La Alagracia Province;

Carlos Rafael Goico M., Deputy, La Altagrocia Province;

Elios Brache Vines, Deputy, Le Vega Province;

Monelik Gasso Pereyro, Deputy, La Vega Province;

Pedro Antonio Rodriguez, Deputy, La Vega Province;

in Nashville, 79 colored students were ar

rested for having taken part in a passive

resistance demonstration against segrega

tion in bars and restaurants, and against

irritating slights such as allowing them the

elemental right to attend certain state

schools, debarring them from using certain

vehicles of transportation, of eating in cer

tain restaurants and even from buying

stamps at the post office window set aside

for the exclusive use of whites.

Because of this obvious violation of hu

man rights, the Dominico-African Culture

Society, resolved to denounce these facts

before the Organization of American States

and to protest energetically to world opin

ion regarding the unjustified allegation of

the violation of these rights in the Domini

can Republic, placed before the Interna

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Evening star. (1960). Washington, D.C., 1960-04-05. US/DR Newspaper Timeline, Miscellaneous. Library of Congress, Chronicling America: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83045462/1960-04-05/ed-1/?sp=32