Word: enjoins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...home state. Birmingham businessmen, who had been trying to attract outside industry to their fading city, sent Patterson a sharp wire complaining that the riots had torpedoed their campaign. The Justice Department brought suit against four local Alabama police officials, including Birmingham's Commissioner Eugene ("Bull") Connor, to enjoin them from interfering with interstate bus traffic. Justice's charges: the cops had not only failed to respond quickly to the riots but had actually withdrawn from some trouble spots to give the mobs a free hand...
When a South Burlington taxpayer named C. Raymond Swart (who has no school age children) sued to enjoin the school board from paying tuition to three Catholic high schools, the Vermont State
...cotton harvest ended, the blacklisting spread to rural areas, and some Negro tenant farmers who had spent their lives on one piece of ground were ordered to move on. Last month the Justice Department moved into Fayette County and neighboring Haywood County, asked a federal court to enjoin white landlords pending a hearing based on the 1957 Civil Rights Act. The court refused on the ground that the Civil Rights Act does not involve property and contract rights...