Word: birminghams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...election campaign was hotting up last week-and so were the candidates, frequently egged on by hecklers. In Lancashire, Prime Minister Sir Alec Douglas-Home, in fact, took a live egg square between the shoulder blades, and was booed down by sign-waving youths (WHO EXHUMED YOU?) in Birmingham. He got so riled trying to make himself heard in suburban London that he snapped: "I don't mind opposition, but I'm not prepared for people who won't listen...
...caption in the April 12, 1960, New York Times, beneath a picture of the Birmingham, Ala., police commissioner, was hardly calculated to please the subject. "Police Commissioner Eugene Connor," it read, "was elected on a race hate platform." Other references to Connor, in Timesman Harrison Salisbury's accompanying two-part story on race tensions in Birmingham, were no more flattering. "Bull" Connor sued the Times for $400,000 in damages, and was joined in his action by six other Alabama officials. Last week in Birmingham, four years after publication of the Times story, a federal-district-court jury awarded...
Barry's other break-and it might well prove a short-term gain-came in the form of a decision by three federal judges in Birmingham striking down Title II of the Civil Rights Act, the crucial Public Accommodations section, as it applied to a local restaurant called Ollie's Barbecue. The judges ruled that Title II violated the "due process" clause of the Fifth Amendment. Said the judges: "If Congress has the naked power to do what it has attempted in Title II of this act, there is no facet of human behavior which...
...decision was 180° counter to last July's ruling by a three-judge panel in Atlanta whose effect was to uphold the Public Accommodations section. The Supreme Court has already agreed to hear an appeal from the Atlanta decision. For the time being, however, the Birmingham ruling is a plus for Barry, since it tends to confirm his doubts about the constitutionality of the Civil Rights...
Behind the turreted greystone walls of Birmingham's Winson Green prison, the night guard made his regular 15-minute check, looking through the "judas hole" in the door of the maximum security cell where the lights burned all the time. He was satisfied to see the prisoner lying under his blanket, eyes closed, chest gently rising and falling. It was 3:04 a.m. and all was quiet...