Word: davises
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Davis Knight had lived in Mississippi all of his 23 years, except for three years in the Navy. He married blonde, blue-eyed Junie Lee Spradley and farmed a poor piece of land. One night the county police arrested him. Knight was a Negro, they said; Junie Lee was white...
Knight said they were wrong. But a relative, irked by an old family feud, had dug up Davis Knight's genealogy. His great-grandfather had been Cap'n Newt Knight, who deserted the Confederate Army and set up "The Free State of Jones" in Jones County. Cap'...
Through succeeding generations the Knights had married white men or women. Davis Knight's own parents had not known of the Negro strain in their ancestry. The story the relative dug up would affect a number of other families in the neighborhood, all sprung from the loins of Cap...
Pancho Gonzales, 20, was not good enough last summer to make the U.S. Davis Cup team. He had won only one worthwhile tennis tournament (at Southampton). Then Pancho stalked into Forest Hills in September and pulled off one of the biggest upsets in tennis history, to become National Amateur champion...
Was he really the best U.S. amateur? In second place, the U.S.L.T.A. put 27-year-old Ted Schroeder, who has made himself unpopular with the officials by boycotting the national singles for the past six years. Yet he was the star of the victorious Davis Cup team. And soon after...