Word: dothan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dothan, Ala.. John Sowell, ex-Texas convict was arrested, imprisoned. The Sheriff removed two hacksaw blades from his person. Later guards found his cell empty, a note: "Dear Sheriff. You miscounted...
With Negro Johnson in tow the mob stomped out, drove off toward Tumbleton in 25 automobiles. After day broke City Editor Joseph David ("Red") Brown of the Dothan Eagle received a telephone tip that Negro Johnson's body could be found near the Tumbleton farm home of Rupert Bond in which the alleged attack had taken place. Editor Brown grabbed his camera and dashed off for Tumbleton. There on the brink of a sparsely wooded ravine, 50 yd. from Farmer Bond's house, he found the bullet-riddled body of Negro Johnson. Tight-lipped farmers, who seemed...
Unlike the great planters and white trash farther north, the white men of southeastern Alabama are neither very rich nor very poor, work harder than their Negro help and run to rugged individualism. In that section is the drowsy market town of Dothan (pop.: 16,000) and the combustible newspaper family of Hall which won the Dothan Eagle three generations ago in a draw poker game. Slim, red-headed Editor Julian Hall, 33, is a first-rate newspaperman, an Alabama "character," a humorist of distinction. Under the Dothan Eagle's heading, Editor Hall daily prints the Biblical quotation...
...cheers when Governor Graves finally vetoed the bill. Last fortnight the cheers turned back to howls when it appeared that the Governor had waited one day too long to veto the bill which had automatically become the law of Alabama. Other Alabama editors just howled, but not the Dothan Eagle's young Editor Hall. On his front page appeared an editorial to make Dothan citizens rub their eyes...
Nobody in Alabama thought for a second that Editor Hall meant it. However, to reassure Dothan whites, he explained that all he wanted was a test case on his right to advocate sedition or anything else. Then he sat back to wait for the police. The police never arrived because the Legislature had already moved to repeal the offending antisedition bill. It had, furthermore, put through a bill drafted by Editor Hall and sponsored by Dothan's Representative, exempting newspaper men from contempt of court sentences when they refuse to reveal news sources in judicial investigations. Several States have...