Word: charleston
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Charleston...
...contribution, West Virginia Governor Arch A. Moore Jr., charged in turn that John A. Field III, the Federal prosecutor pressing the case, was conducting "a vicious political vendetta" in order "to feed his personal ambitions." Last week the Republican Governor stood vindicated after a jury in Charleston, W. Va., found him innocent. Said a tearful, defiant Moore: "An apology is due the citizens of this state...
...letters was this big, bulky, official-looking thing, with a big seal on it, and 'Return within five days to PHYLLIS J. RUTLEDGE, CIRCUIT CLERK, Kanawha County Courthouse, Charleston, West Virginia.' It was my absentee ballot, and, like any other first-time voter, I tore it open eagerly...
...that tried to remove English books from the Kanawha County schools a year ago. The textbooks included short stories by James Baldwin, Allen Ginsberg, Gwendolyn Brooks, other radicals. One of the formative experiences of my life was seeing Avis Hill lead a group of women down a street in Charleston to the building that houses the school board, where they built a pyre of the godless books. They were singing "We Shall Overcome...
...though. Eight people are running, and they can be split into three categories. The first is the Nobodies--including Ezra Graley, another itinerant preacher involved in the textbook hassles, and Powell Lane, and two other nobodies. There there is the second group--the Semi-Candidates. The Semi-Candidates include Charleston Mayor John Hutchinson and Rep. Ken Hechler...