Word: charlestoned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...governor has had his dander up ever since the state's school system came under legal fire about a year ago from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. A federal district court in Charleston ordered an improvement in school facilities for Negroes, but found nothing illegal in segregation. The N.A.A.C.P., arguing that segregation is an infringement of the 14th Amendment, carried the issue to the U.S. Supreme Court, which has still to pass judgment. If the high tribunal bans segregation, the state's public schools may be replaced by privately operated schools subsidized...
...Charleston...
Auld Lang Syne. In Charleston, S.C., when Mailman James Brawley retired after 46 years of service, his fellow carriers presented him with a mailbox...
What happened after that, only Gus Frazer, hurt and exhausted in a Charleston, S.C. hospital bed, was alive this week to tell...
When the Amphitrite's lifeboat was hauled into the Charleston docks, six waterlogged life-jackets lay inside. Two oars were underneath the seats. A single blue canvas sneaker bobbed in the salt water that covered the bottom of the boat, occasionally bumping into the metal ice trays, which gleamed dully in the bilge...