Word: charlestoning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Purple Heart for wounds received while fighting an enemy of the U.S., returns to his home only to find bigotry on the part of state employees and fellow police cadets while pursuing a course at a state institution. This story does not end at the state police academy near Charleston. The prevailing racial attitude of the remaining twenty-two cadets, if permitted to complete the course, will most certainly be reflected in the way they carry out their duties as police officers...
...carriers in the Mediterranean, keeping a watch offshore when the carriers go into port and taking up the chase again when they come out. A fleet of espionage ships keeps watch off U.S. Polaris submarine bases at such places as Holy Loch in Scotland, Rota in Spain and Charleston, S.C. Other snoopers sit off Seattle, New England, and Cape Kennedy, where the Soviets monitor the U.S. space shots...
Nonetheless, the state was eager to integrate its force and readily accepted Johnson's application. Last July, after voluntarily giving up $140 a month in disability pay, Johnson joined 23 white recruits in a 20-week training course at the state-police academy near Charleston. It was, almost from the beginning, as psychologically trying as anything he had known in Viet...
...case in point. "This is a time for mixing not only periods but also nationalities," says Albert Hadley, partner with New York Decorator Mrs. Henry Parish II, who proved it by deftly combining 17th century Oriental art, 18th century English furniture and a 20th century American carpet in the Charleston, W. Va., living room of Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller IV. The driftwood shutters that Mrs. Parish designed for the "morning room" of Publisher John Hay Whitney's Manhattan town house signal another trend: heavy, floor-to-ceiling drapes are Out, and simpler, livelier window treatments...
...South Carolina federal judge who in 1947 opened the state's polls to Negroes; after a long illness; in Manhattan. Judge Waring's courageous decision to force the enrollment of Negroes in South Carolina's primaries so inflamed local whites that they stoned his house in Charleston, burned crosses on his lawn, and ostracized him from society. The judge stood firm and went on to argue in a 1951 opinion that school segregation per se is inequality -an idea later upheld in the 1954 Supreme Court ruling...