Word: fla
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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George Spoto, a quarterback from Tampa, Fla., kept his boys moving well against spirited but hopelessly overpowered opponents. Spoto scored the first Crimson TD on a quarterback sneak up the middle, and passed to Curt Lemkau for another...
Colonel, U.S.A. (ret.) Riviera Beach, Fla...
Pensacola, Fla...
...some 100 counties in eight Southern states-North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Tennessee and Florida-there was "reason to believe that Negro citizens are prevented, by outright discrimination or by fear of physical violence or economic reprisal, from exercising the right to vote." Items: > Liberty County, Fla., has 240 voting-age Negroes, but none are now registered. In 1956 some Negroes did register. There was an immediate outbreak of cross-burnings, fire bombs, abusive nighttime telephone calls. When all the Negroes except one had removed their names from voting lists, said the commission, the "troubles ended...
...South last week proceeded with integration 1961 style: peaceful compliance with the law of the land. In Dallas (pop. 680,000). once the biggest city defying the law, 18 Negro first graders entered white schools without incident. So it went in Galveston (35 Negro children) and Fort Lauderdale, Fla. (23). One all-white Miami school accepted 277 Negroes. In Little Rock, Ark., 46 Negro pupils marched in the front door at seven of the city's ten junior and senior high schools. Said a white student in the city that only four years ago produced anti-integration riots...