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Last week, while in Nashville, Tenn., to report on that city's considerable advances in race relations, Trillin got word of new trouble in Birmingham, Ala., and hurried off to cover the story. First stop: the Birmingham city jail, to ask about the captive white and Negro "Freedom Riders." As soon as Trillin left the jail, a patrol car began to tail him. Five blocks farther on, police hailed down Trillin's rented car, said he had run a stop sign. They asked questions. What was his profession? Whom did he work for? What was he doing...
...dents, joined by sympathizers, white and black, boarded a Greyhound bus and were escorted to Birmingham's limits by city cops, who then turned the whole business over to state troopers. But despite ample, early and dire warnings, no policemen were waiting when the bus pulled into Montgomery, Ala., a city that had been relatively free of racial violence since the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. led a successful Negro boycott against bus segregation (TIME cover...
RICHARD T. FENWICK Montgomery, Ala...
...handling a winning dog in a trial, developed champions that made as much as $14,000 in stud fees at $200 a pairing. By 1948 Morton and his wife Sibyl had saved up enough money to buy a 7,500-acre cotton and cattle plantation outside of Selma, Ala...
...Florala, Ala...