Word: fairley
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...white registrar found reasons to turn them away. Eventually, Dahmer got the sheriff to sign out to him a poll-tax receipt book, and Dahmer announced over the radio that blacks could register at his grocery. "I said, 'I wouldn't do this if I were you,'" recalls J.C. Fairley, a friend and fellow N.A.A.C.P. activist. "'You're out there by yourself--they can easily get to you.'" And they did, the first day Dahmer went...
...Klan "die-hard" or two could still make it on the jury and produce another mistrial. But this time, notably, it is the Dahmers and their supporters who seem to have the most faith in the system. "I think the jury is going to work out just fine," says Fairley, the friend who warned Dahmer that registering blacks to vote could get him killed. "Things are a lot different now in Hattiesburg...
...sing. Presley demurred. It was just that she didn't appreciate his style of singing. To prove his point, he showed up in class the next day with his guitar and let loose with his version of Keep Them Cold Icy Fingers Off of Me, a 1947 hit by Fairley Holden and His Six Ice Cold Papas. Miss Marmann agreed with him on one point: she did not appreciate his style of singing...
...After the law turns you away, society closes its doors on you, and you find yourself trapped in a life with someone capable of homicide. What choice in the end was I given?" asks Shalanda Burt, 21, who is serving 17 years for shooting her boyfriend James Fairley two years ago in Bradenton, Florida. She was three months pregnant at the time. A week after she delivered their first baby, James raped her and ripped her stitches. Several times she tried to leave or get help. "I would have a bloody mouth and a swollen face. All the police would...