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...called the report "totally erroneous" and added that he had sent a letter to Larry Claflin, the sportswriter who wrote the article, advising him to check out his "reliable sources" more carefully in the future...
After a while, a woman peered her head in to call Matthews to the phone. "That was Larry Claflin from the Herald," he said when he hung up. "He wanted two seats in the stands. I told him they were all sold out. So he said, 'Ask Joe the next time you see him."' Matthews laughed. So did his assistant, Bob Donovan, who had accompanied Matthews and Restic to lunch...
...hundreds of women's suffragists organized the new National Radical Reformers Party, and nominated as its Presidential candidate the colorful and eccentric Victoria Claflin Woodhull. After pondering a half dozen choices for Vice-President, the convention enthusiastically selected a black man in absentia. This was none other than Frederick Douglass, who needs no identification: suffice it to say that Douglass was not only as great a black man as our country has produced, but also as great a man of any color. Although it was at once reported in the press that Douglass "will not decline," the fact is that...
...Cleveland Sellers, organizer for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, had led to tales of outside agitation; two thrill-seeking white teen-agers had roared across the black campus firing a gun; a highway patrolman had fired a warning shot into the air; rifle fire had been heard from adjoining Claflin University. State authorities blamed Cleveland Sellers, even though the only available evidence suggested that on the night of the shooting, Sellers was actually a victim. The trial verdict on the policemen's role in the shooting was "not guilty...
...following days several buildings were fire-bombed. and students sponsored a nonattendance strike at S.C. State College and at adjacent Claflin College both completely black-and marched through business and residential sections of the town...