Word: davises
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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If New Orleans had been left alone, token racial integration ordered for two of the city's elementary schools would have proceeded last year with a minimum of disorder. But in Baton Rouge, cowboy-songster Governor Jimmie H. Davis cranked the Louisiana legislature into paroxysms of racist sentiment, and...
On Bobby Kennedy's call, Louisiana Attorney General Jack P. F. Gremillion flew to Washington last week to talk things over face to face. Meantime. Bobby was on the phone to other state and legislative leaders in Louisiana. Working through Louisiana politicians he knows from the presidential campaign, he...
Davis had played with the racists too long to move suddenly without them, and the effort to get a bill foundered in the closing hours of the special session. Cried Extremist Wellborn Jack, of Shreveport: "They're not gonna put you in contempt. They're not gonna have...
First Family, by Christopher Davis. A skilled novelist examines a picked-over but exciting theme-what happens when Negroes move in next door.
Passing Mood. Albert Davis Ricketts Jr. ("Whoever heard of a columnist named Albert Davis Ricketts Jr.?") was born in St. Louis, broke up a foundering nightclub comedy team-he played straight man-to enlist in the Army in 1952. Sent to the Orient, he drifted onto the Pacific Stars and...