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...built and athletic, he was a crack miler at Sumner High School, went on to break records at Southern Illinois University. He showed skill as a comic in Army talent contests in the mid '50s, and when he worked as a clerk in the Chicago post office, the foreman told him that if he did not stop cracking jokes about the mail service, he would be sacked. The jokes continued. Gregory was fired, and began work for $10 a night in the Club Esquire, a Negro club on Chicago's South Side...
...Lloyd A. Foreman of New Orleans. The courage and dignity displayed by him during the recent school integration fight [in New Orleans] should be an example to all of those who believe that this is the land of the free and the home of the brave...
...legal struggle went against segregation, the fury of the mob outside the schools increased. The taunts grew more venomous. Husky men began to appear, ominously and silently, among the jeering women. The first to run the white boycott at William Frantz School was the Rev. Lloyd A. Foreman, 34, a Methodist minister. Walking his small daughter into the school, Foreman was shoved by the mob. "Don't touch me," he snapped. "You can talk to me-but don't touch me." Next to brave the mob were James and Daisey Gabrielle with their daughter Yolanda, 6. Gabrielle...
...Going to Help." Against the mob's passion, the Foreman and Gabrielle families wavered. The Foremans. harassed by obscene telephone calls, moved to the home of friends. Lloyd Foreman hesitated about bringing his little girl to school again. "Frankly," he said, "at this point, I don't know what they might try." Jim Gabrielle's boss told him-mistakenly-that his daughter had been shot. Daisey Gabrielle, ostracized by her neighbors, stood fast. "Neighbors change," she said. "Principles...
...Hahn also said that he had refused the producers' invitation to take part in the show, choked up when he heard Edwards tell all America that the only reason Mother's husband was not on the show was that he had slightly injured his foot at his foreman's job (at West Haven's Technical Rubber Inc.). In extolling Mrs. Hahn's family life, Ralph Edwards also failed to note that Hahn had filed a divorce suit against her, and that early this year Mrs. Hahn had haled her own daughter into a magistrate...