Word: charlestoned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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South Carolina Governor James F. Byrnes was worried about an anti-segregation suit due for hearing in Charleston federal court this May. Regardless of the outcome there, he was sure the issue would eventually go right on up to his old colleagues on the U.S. Supreme Court, too. Last week Jimmy Byrnes gave the South Carolina Education Association (white teachers only) his thoughts on segregation, and along the way served an astonishing ultimatum...
There's probably only one Radcliffe mother in the United States who can dance the Charleston, discuss world affairs intelligently, manage a busy office, and stand up from a sitting position on the floor without using her hands...
Chipping the Barrier. Although he found the old race barriers still in existence, Reporter Rowan also found that they are being chipped away. On Atlantic Coast Line's Palmetto, between Washington and Charleston, where five years ago Ensign Rowan, U.S.N.R. had to eat at a curtain-rigged table, Newsman Rowan ate in an open diner-thanks to the Supreme Court decision outlawing Jim Crow in dining cars on interstate trains. In New Orleans, by showing his Naval Reserve card, he even got a Pullman berth...
When one Beatrice Davis denied the theft of $200 from a Charleston, S.C. restaurant last week, Magistrate Gene Herron fell back on a medieval judicial device. He called in the jailer, ordered him and Beatrice to extend their forefingers, placed a Bible on their outstretched fingers. As it balanced there, he intoned...
...table in her new cabaret, Bricktop gave them just what they wanted-notably, such old Gershwin songs as Lady Be Good and The Man I Love-in a contralto warm and caressing, for all her 56 years. For energetic youngsters, kicking up their heels in Rome's current Charleston fad (TIME, Dec. 18), Bricktop was at her best with Yes Sir, That's My Baby, backed by some solid rhythm from her band...