Word: barbours
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...weeks Judge Wallace, 39, a onetime state Golden Gloves featherweight champion ("The Barbour Bantam") and a defeated Democratic gubernatorial candidate last year, had been fighting efforts of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission to examine the voting records of two counties in his circuit. From his bench in Montgomery, he threatened to throw any "federal police'' who came around into jail. Even after Federal Judge Johnson,directly ordered him to permit examination of the voting records. Wallace refused, instead turned them over to county grand juries he had hurriedly called. (The grand juries, in turn, later bowed before...
Circuit Court Judge George Wallace, admittedly inviting a jail term for contempt, turned the voter files over to hurriedly called grand juries in Barbour and Bullock counties...
Although a federal judge had demanded he show the records to civil rights agents, Wallace gave the records to grand juries to investigate complaints of irregularities in registering voters. However, the Barbour jurors offered to permit the agents to inspect the records for evidence on alleged denial of Negro voting rights...
...Farmer Andrew Jones said he tried to register in Barbour County, was refused because ''my writing...
JOHN MARSHALL BARBOUR Pasadena, Calif...