Word: coxing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Truman was feeling under the weather, and Jacqueline Kennedy wanted to avoid the inescapably painful comparisons. Uncle Huffman Baines was present, and so was Sam Houston Johnson, Lyndon's brother, and Mrs. Josephs Saunders, Lyndon's aunt, and Rodney White, Lyndon's nephew, and Ave Johnson Cox, Lyndon's cousin, and Lyndon's two sisters, Mrs. Birge Alexander and Mrs. O. P. Bobbitt and their children, Becky Alexander and Philip Bobbitt, and Lady Bird's brother and his wife, Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Taylor, and Lady Bird's widowed sister...
...Baton Rouge, in 1961, police arrested 23 students of Southern (Negro) University for picketing segregated lunch counters. Next day, the Rev. B. Elton Cox, a Congregationalist minister and CORE worker, led 2,000 more students to the courthouse for a peaceful demonstration against the arrests. Cox figured he had permission because Police Chief Wingate White had told him to "confine" his demonstrators to the opposite side of the street...
...When Cox urged his crew to go to segregated lunch counters, white bystanders began muttering angrily, and the sheriff ordered Cox & Co. to leave "immediately." Minutes later the demonstrators were still there, and police dispersed them with tear-gas shells...
...Standards. Cox was arrested, convicted and sentenced to four months in jail and fined $200 for breach of the peace. He got five months and a $500 fine for obstructing public passages, one year and a $5,000 fine for picketing a courthouse-all to be served cumulatively, for a total of 21 months in jail and $5,700 in fines. Louisiana's highest court upheld the convictions...
...District Judge Harold Cox told the jurors when they convened today they should be able to wind up work...