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...work for the release of black and poor people now behind bars and to defend those about to be imprisoned. Already, she and SCLC have joined forces to defend Emily Butler, a young Georgia woman accused of murdering her supervisor at the Internal Revenue Service's huge installation in DeKalb County. What will eventually grow out of this alliance is also unclear, but certainly, the goals and hopes are high. As Angela Davis told the group that gathered in Martin King's old church in Atlanta when the alliance was announced: "The fight to free Emily Butler is a fight...
...Kennedy victory (or the Nixon defeat) and the black role in it was a telephone call made by Kennedy to Correta King after her husband had been sentenced by a DeKalb County, Georgia judge to four months of hard labor "in the closest thing possible to a Georgia chain gang" for driving with an out-of-state license...
...areas of recent riots. In Michigan, Dearborn's racist Mayor Orville L. Hubbard exhorted townsfolk to "take up arms, learn to shoot and be a dead shot." Close to 500 Dearborn women are taking regular pistol practice; similar distaff firearm courses are under way from Redondo Beach, Calif., to DeKalb County, Georgia, to Dallas, where 1,000 women have completed a pistol program in recent months...
...WILLRETT DeKalb...
...Northern Illinois' George Bork, 21, is the kind of small-college star no one hears about until he turns up as a pro. The Green Bay Packers want him, so do the Minnesota Vikings, and no less than 15 pro teams have dispatched scouts to DeKalb, Ill. On practically every play, the Northern Illinois team lines up in a shotgun formation, the ball goes to Bork on a direct snap from center, and five receivers fan out across the field. In four straight victories over the likes of Northeast Missouri and White water (Wis.) State, Bork has attempted...