Word: clerke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Primitive Garcia was that folkloric figure, the bright-eyed young idealist who migrates to the U.S. and turns visions into realities. In the nine months following his arrival in Kansas City, Mo., the handsome young Mexican held a steady job as a shipping clerk, be came engaged, and helped his brother put down $500 on a three-room home for themselves, their mother and their 15-year-old sister...
Contemptuous. After that, Clayton's decisions developed a more progressive tone. He put a stop to the harassment of Negroes seeking to register to vote in one town; he ordered a circuit clerk in an other to stop applying stricter voting requirements for Negroes than for whites; he knocked down a third town's ordinance restricting Negro marches and demonstrations; he voided, as a member of a three-judge panel, application of the state's poll tax in state and local elections. "When you are able to show him a set of outrageous facts, then he loses...
Negroes, in some cases with white help, also showed new strength in lesser contests. In the racially mixed Richmond district, Dr. William Ferguson Reid became the first Negro elected to the Virginia legislature since 1891. Charles City County, Va., elected a Negro sheriff, James M. Bradby, and a county clerk, lona Adkins. Bradby defeated a white incumbent of 43 years' standing. In New Orleans, Attorney Ernest Morial won a seat in Louisiana's state legislature. In Mississippi, Holmes County's Robert Clarke was elected, thus integrating the state legislature, while six other Negroes won posts as county...
Last Wednesday, a Boston Municipal Court judge ruled a recent issue of the hippie newspaper Avatar obscene. He fined a bookstore clerk $200 for selling...
...decision was made in a criminal proceeding against William McGuire, a 20 year old clerk at the Boston branch of the Paperback Booksmith. McGuire was fined two hundred dollars for selling the issue which was the tenth the Avatar has published. Marshall Smith, manager of the Booksmith chain, said that his lawyers would appeal the decision. In Massachusetts this means a new trial before the State Superior Court...