Word: byrdmen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that step. "We cannot refuse to do what has to be done," he insisted. "Most of us would still be living with our in-laws and driving a horse and buggy if it were not for that great institution known as American credit." Though they gulped, most old-line Byrdmen went along. The assembly (in which sat a symbol of change-the first Negro member since 1891) also approved Godwin's plea for a commission to revise the state's revered but outmoded constitution...