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...during its era of "sophisticated muckraking," Curtis Publishing's Saturday Evening Post reported that Butts had revealed strategy secrets to Alabama Coach Paul ("Bear") Bryant, whose Crimson Tide thereupon rolled over Georgia in their 1962 football game, 35-0. Butts sued the Post and won a judgment of $3,060,000, later reduced to $460,000 by the trial judge...
...year federal sentences and $1,000 fines for violating the victims' civil rights. James Conley, 17, testified that Duke Reynolds had cried, "Nigger, move," that he had moved, and that Reynolds then clubbed him with a stick. Felix Freelon, father of two Negro schoolchildren, said that William Bryant Flanagan had hit him with a blackjack. According to Charles Alexander, 17, Justice of the Peace James R. Ayers had threatened him with a pistol. And Emerald Cunningham, 11, a polio victim who could not run, added that Ayers had chased her, grabbed her dress, pulled her down, kicked...
Ridiculous Details. The team is led by a former Governor of Florida, genial Farris Bryant, 52, who is the director of the Office of Emergency Planning but serves also as Johnson's chief engineer and evangelist of creative federalism. Last week federal men boarded one of the President's Boeing 707 jetliners, touched down in Washington State and Alaska to meet firsthand with their state counterparts. So far, the task force of better than a score of federal officials has visited 19 states. The problems they have encountered have been as diverse as America itself...
...Bryant and his team kept their cool. "Well," one of them admitted, "there is a lack of coordination and coherence in Washington. This is why we're here...
...interest in obtaining membership lists." Alabama wanted the lists to see if the NAACP had violated its law requiring the registration of foreign corporations. While the Court found this motive insubstantial, it might take a different view of HUAC's desire to uncover subversive activity in student groups. In Bryant v. Zimmerman the Supreme Court upheld a disclosure of Ku Klux Klan membership lists because of the "particular character of the Klan's activities." Furthermore, in the NAACP case the Court believed that publication of membership rolls would "expose members to economic reprisal, loss of employment, threat of physical coercion...