Word: florida
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Desegregation may be a balance-changing factor this year in ten congressional races in Maryland, Delaware, Tennessee, Kentucky, North Carolina, Missouri, Florida and Virginia. In each case it works against the Republican candidate, even though, for the most part, the Democrats are not pushing it publicly...
...Florida States' Rights, chartered in August, claims a membership of 4,000. Said its state secretary, Ruth V. Armstrong: "I can't have my son or daughter dancing on a dance floor or swimming in a pool with somebody as black as the ace of spades and with a skull three inches thick...
More than two years ago, Ruby McCollum, then 37, wealthy wife of a Negro gambler and one of the richest Negroes in the area, shot to death Dr. Clifford LeRoy Adams Jr., 44, of Live Oak. A white Florida state senator-elect. Adams was the most important politician in Suwannee County, and a man whom local bigwigs said "was gonna be governor, sure...
...found Huie guilty of contempt, fined him $750 plus an estimated $22 for court costs. When Huie refused to pay the fine, he was clapped into jail. Last week, after three days, he was out under $2,500 bond, and announced that he would take his case to the Florida Supreme Court...
After failing at Bob Jones College, Billy went to the Florida Bible Institute near Tampa. Still, he might never have become a preacher-his marks at the institute were poor-if he had not met Emily Cavanaugh...