Word: charlestoning
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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...
...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...
...America is only one of several routines Tuckwiller--an Engineering and Applied Physics major--performs for the football fans each week. A drum major in the Charleston, W. Va., High School Band, he answered the call when his school needed a twirler to compete in a regional festival...
...later signed the Korean armistice as commander of U.N. forces, from 1954 to 1965 was president of South Carolina's The Citadel military college; and Mary Millard Applegate, 51, longtime family friend; both for the second time (his wife and her husband died last year); in Charleston...
...ceiling, and a cask of oil. In July, off Charleston...