Word: daytona
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Florida, where new N.A.A.C.P. lawsuits "may have more basic effect on school desegregation throughout the South than will the events of any other area, even New Orleans." The key case involves Daytona Beach. The plaintiffs ask not only enjoinment of the segregated school system, but also a complete reorganization of the schools on a nonracial basis. No other suit has been so comprehensive...
When Cuba's ousted Dictator Fulgencio Batista, supposedly foresightedly, put up $82,500 in 1957 for a large pink stucco hacienda in Daytona Beach, Fla., many of the locals began speculating about what sort of effect he might have, as a neighbor, upon real estate values. After Batista fled Cuba on New Year's Day, 1959, he wound up in the Madeira Islands, where most of his household has since joined him. Batista has apparently given up hopes of taking up exile in the U.S. soon. Said his secretary: "You can be sure he's trying...
...Tampa, Miami, Sarasota, St. Petersburg and Daytona Beach, Fla., sit-ins stirred Governor LeRoy Collins to brand the demonstrations "dangerous and illegal" under state...