Word: crump
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Facing a newly significant Negro vote, politicians are suddenly careful not to alienate it. In Memphis, where a huge Negro vote was created by the late Boss Crump for. his own political uses, incumbent Congressman Clifford Davis anxiously dubs as "very vicious" any criticism of his 19th century voting record on civil rights, has abandoned his campaign custom of telling a Negro dialect joke here and there. Five years ago, when Atlanta Businessman Ivan Allen Jr. was sounding out the all-powerful white rural vote for support in the governor's race, he backed an outlandish plan for resettlement...
...always so. When Crump first entered the antiquated, overcrowded county jail, he was described as "savage" and "animalistic," helped instigate a riot himself. But under the guiding hand of beefy, reform-minded Warden Johnson, 44, Crump gradually began to come round. He read voraciously, boned up on law, philosophy, sociology and the Bible (he is a convert to Catholicism). Today Paul Crump reigns as "barn boss" of a cell-block tier housing sick and problem convicts, works long hours administering to their needs. In his tiny cell, cluttered with books and manuscripts, he writes poetry, spices his correspondence with quotes...
After his release, Crump bummed around for several years and went through several jobs. Then, at 23, he got into real trouble. On the morning of March 20, 1953, three hooded gunmen ambushed two payroll clerks and a guard in a corridor of Libby, McNeill & Libby's Chicago plant and robbed them of $20,318. As they fled, one of the bandits gunned down a guard. Within 48 hours, police had rounded up Crump and four other Negroes, including two getaway car drivers. One of the accused, Hudson Tillman, fingered Crump as the murderer, and Crump confessed. He retracted...
Barn Boss. Despite this, the unique aspect of Crump's case is that it does not rest on his guilt or innocence, but on what has happened to him while in jail. Unlike Chessman, who was arrogant and pathologically egotistical to the last, Crump appears to be totally reformed-so remarkably so, in fact, that his attorney, Donald P. Moore, this week is basing his appeal to the state parole board, which will recommend a course to the Governor, on an argument virtually without precedent in legal history: Crump's rehabilitation. Among the 60 persons who have given...
Died. Malcolm Paul Cantrell. 65, Tennessee banker and heavy-handed politician whose powerful Democratic machine allied itself with Memphis' Boss Crump, ruled the roost in southeastern Tennessee's McMinn and Polk counties for a decade until returning World War II veterans formed the G.I. Non-Partisan League to fight him, used Tommy guns and dynamite on election day, Aug.1,1946, to rescue ballot boxes from the county jail where Cantrell's henchmen had hidden them; of cancer; in Athens, Tenn...