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...White Southern Democrats, whose re-election depends on combining huge black voting majorities with much smaller shares of the white vote, came down in Thomas' favor after polls showed that large majorities of African Americans supported him. Among them was Lawrence C. Presley, the only black county commissioner of Etowah County, Ala. "I felt that we needed a black to take over that spot on the Supreme Court," says Presley. "We felt here in the Deep South that that was a very vital issue...
GADSDEN, ALA. Flailing away with night sticks and jabbing with electric cattle prods, some 50 Alabama state troopers drove more than 300 Negro demonstrators from the lawn of Etowah County Courthouse. The Negroes had gathered to protest the arrest of 396 demonstrators during a freedom march on segregated downtown stores the day before. Later a shotgun blast slammed into a state patrol car as it cruised a Negro section of the city. The troopers inside were not injured...
...TIME, Aug. 12, 1946), Ivins tried to grab control of what was left of the discredited Democratic machine. Last April he was blocked from election as county Democratic chairman by a faction led by one Lake Dunn and his nephews, King and Charles Dunn. A few nights later, on Etowah's main street, Burkett Ivins shot and killed his eighth man : ailing, limping, unarmed Charles Dunn. At his trial, Ivins swore that Dunn had threatened to beat his brains in and had rushed at him with a hunk of concrete in his upraised hands. A hung jury left Ivins...