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Last week in Montgomery, U.S. District Judge Frank M. Johnson Jr. ruled that civil righteousness is no excuse for lawlessness. A native Alabamian, and a Republican who was appointed to the bench by President Eisenhower, Johnson has probably handled more sticky civil rights cases than any other federal trial judge. More often than not, he has ruled in favor of the civil rights forces -as last spring, when he authorized the Selma-for-Montgomery Negro protest march. Says Johnson: "I'm not a segregationist, but I'm no crusader either. I just interpret...
...probable reasons for the Attorney General's sweeping statement is Gary Thomas Rowe Jr., an Alabamian who has lived his 34 years in Birmingham. Rowe is a stocky, reddish-haired man remembered by acquaintances as a job-to-job drifter, working at various times in a dairy, in a novelty store, behind a bar, as an ambulance driver, and in a meat-packing plant, where he froze several toes. To Birmingham cops, he was a sometime squealer in bootleg cases. And to his fellow Ku Klux Klansmen, he was a colleague who liked to talk-without ever getting very...
Johnson, 46, is a tough-minded jurist and a native Alabamian who attended a state university with George Wallace. The two were once friendly, but have long since fallen out-mostly over civil rights. Wallace, in fact, once referred obliquely to Judge Johnson without actually naming him as an "integrating, scalawagging, carpetbagging liar...
Only a few argued against marching. One was Alabamian Charles Reynolds, a graduate student in ethics at Harvard, who explained that "the civil rights movement owes...
...Alabamian Black's home state has, in fact, something more than "now and then" stills. The feds broke up 1,059 stills there last year, made 619 arrests in the process. The last two revenuers killed in a liquor raid were shot a little more than a year ago in Alabama's Bibb County. Even so, argued the feds in U.S. v. Gainey, chances that innocent hunters may stumble on stills are "very, very small. Other rural possibilities-a lost motorist or an airman who parachutes to safety-are even more remote." Indeed, the feds figured the odds...