Thirty-eight pickets from two civil rights groups marched for 50 minutes around Philadelphia Stadium Saturday, protesting the participation of Mississippi State in the Liberty Bowl football game. There were no incidents.
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People supplied 30 pickets and the student non-violent coordinating committee had eight representatives in the line. Pickets carried signs saying "Discrimination Isn't Sport." They sang freedom songs.
Cecil Moore, head of the Philadelphia branch of the NAACP, called off the march less than an hour after it began. He said he acted because of the sparse attendance of 8,309 spectators at the game and bitter cold weather.
Moore said the demonstration was aimed only at Mississippi State which “has a decided program of segregation."