Word: convicted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...other countries pictured Malcolm's death as a major setback in the fight for Negro rights in America. But these reactions, said Carl Rowan, then head of the United States Information Agency, were based on "misinformation." All the praise for Malcolm X, he said, was for "an ex-convict and ex-dope peddler, who became a racial fanatic." And so in the United States, the reaction to Malcolm's performance in the sixties was colored by his record in the forties, and only half of his story was discussed...
...defendant's own mouth. So absolute is the privilege against self-incrimination in a trial that the defendant need not even take the stand. But what of police interrogation -the preliminary stage at which a suspect is pressed to make the very confession that may convict him at his trial...
...both civil rights workers. It was at least slightly embarrassing to the state that Coleman, one of the local white courthouse-hangers-on who are so often available for jury duty in the South, was on the venire list for his own trial. Another all-white Alabama jury did convict Hubert Strange last December for murdering a Negro motorist near Anniston; compared with the almost certain death that a Negro defendant would have drawn had the motorist been white, Strange got ten years, a sentence that makes him eligible for parole in three years...
...have to go to jail." Imprisonment, as he sees it, "is one of the responsibilities of being a Christian witness." Miller's lawyers then filed a notice of appeal, which had the effect of staying the probation terms and keeping Miller at least temporarily out of convict's garb or G.I.'s fatigues...
...request, and the Army responded routinely. The widow of Robert G. Thompson, a World War II staff sergeant who died last October, applied for permission to bury her husband's ashes in Arlington National Cemetery. As it happened, Hero Thompson, a Distinguished Service Cross holder, was also ex-Convict Thompson, one of eleven U.S. Communist Party leaders who were convicted in 1949 of conspiring to advocate the violent overthrow of the U.S. Government. Nonetheless, the Army approved the widow's request...