Word: americus
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When a lower-court judge ruled that 1,081 Negro children should be expelled from Birmingham schools for demonstrating, Judge Tuttle began hearing an appeal within six hours. Two days later he ordered the children reinstated immediately. In Americus, Ga., four civil rights workers were indicted on a variety of trumped-up charges; Judge Tuttle went to the town, convened a three-judge court on the spot, and freed the four. It was also Judge Tuttle who rebuffed Mississippi Governor Ross Barnett and told him firmly that the U.S. Supreme Court must be respected. Barnett had made the mistake...
...Armed with a stack of memos, Katzenbach spent a full day conferring with his aides as the list of target counties grew from ten to 18 to 24, then shrank again. At first they marked Georgia's Sumter County for action, largely because of the recent demonstrations in Americus. But when fast-moving state officials sent Negro registrars to the town and in two days reported 647 Negro enrollments, Sumter was dropped. Alabama's Dallas County, home of Selma and of Sheriff Jim Clark, was a surefire candidate for the list. Another notorious "dead-end county," in Justice...
...time for waiting," said the President in his television speech, "is gone." Even as he spoke, the civil rights revolution continued to bubble and boil. In Americus, Ga., white toughs beat five civil rights workers, and demonstrations continued-but county officials appointed three Negro voting clerks and registered more than 300 Negro voters in a single day. In Bogalusa, La., two Negro policemen were hired. In Slidell, La., night riders burned two Negro churches. In Chicago, civil rights demonstrators marched outside the modest home of Mayor Richard Daley- and were pelted with eggs and tomatoes by Daley's white...
Violence has become almost habit in the black belt when civil rights workers collide with unyielding segregationists. In Americus, Ga. (pop. 14,482), the confrontation started in 1963, and mediation efforts so far have failed. So when sudden death came one midnight last week, the only surprises were the victim's color and his disinterest in the contest...
Inter-racial marriages are illegal in Georgia, and Perdew's marriage to Amanda Bowen, of Americus, though performed in his home state in Colorado, has evoked a stream of hostile publicity in the South...