Word: atlanta
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rented Atlanta hall Columbian Burke wildly harangued his audience of riffraff. Suddenly there was a crash of glass; a cloud of tear gas sent the listeners coughing and choking toward the exit. His lean face bright with sweat, Burke leaned through the broken window and shook his fist. He bawled: "Come back here, you Jew. We'll get you yet." To emergency police he shouted accusingly: "Some Communist...
...world premiere of Song of the South was scheduled for this week, with appropriate Hollywood razzle-dazzle, in Atlanta, the only city Uncle Remus himself really knew. The movie's success in the South, which unabashedly dotes on the good old days, is already assured. The film critic of the Atlanta Journal (the rival Constitution's onetime editor: Joel Chandler Harris) went on a special junket to Hollywood for a preview. He has pronounced the picture fully as great-if not anywhere near so long-winded-as that other Atlanta-premiered movie, Gone With the Wind: "There...
Last week organized, khaki-shirted Columbians staged a meeting in a downtown Atlanta hall. While a tinny phonograph blared martial music, Columbians stamped up & down, looking baleful and clenching raised fists. Secretary Loomis, in a crew haircut, excoriated Jews, Negroes and the "alien element." President Burke, speaking with an affected English accent, presented a "medal of honor" to 17-year-old James Childers, just released on bail for allegedly blackjacking a Negro...
...days later the Columbians gathered in public again. On Atlanta's unpaved Garibaldi Street, Frank Jones, a 45-year-old Negro, was moving his family belongings into an unpainted bungalow once tenanted by whites. Columbians met him at the door, pointed to placards warning Negroes away from the neighborhood...
Before the lightning could strike, Atlanta police swooped down on the crowd. Lectured Police Chief M. A. Hornsby: "I want to tell you once and for all ... the Atlanta police department is policing this town." Four of the leaders, including disgruntled Homer L. Loomis Jr. and Whitman, were hustled off to jail, booked for disorderly conduct and "inciting a riot...