Word: freemen
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Slave marriages weren't recognized, so family records of descendants of Africans living in America prior to 1870 were often not recorded. But good paper trails do exist for black freemen who came as ship's crew members, not slaves. A good start: www.ccharity.com 212-491-2200, or www.nypl.org/research/sc/sc.html...
SENTENCED. LEROY SCHWEITZER, 61, leader of the Freemen, the anti-government, anti-black and anti-Jewish group best known for its 81-day standoff with law-enforcement officials in 1996; to 22 1/2 years in prison; on charges including bank fraud and illegal possession of firearms; in Billings, Mont. U.S. District Judge John Coughenour, who said he wanted to send a "loud and clear message to those who pass this hatred...around," also handed stiff sentences to six of Schweitzer's comrades...
...number of unofficial guerrilla missions into Vietnam in search of U.S. POWs, hopes to coax Rudolph to surrender by getting him a lawyer and putting the FBI's $1 million reward into a defense fund, the Charlotte Observer reports. He has previously helped mediate the Ruby Ridge and Montana Freemen standoffs. Federal agents searching for Rudolph don't plan to cooperate with Gritz, but they won't order him out of the area either -- after six frustrating months searching for Rudolph, they could use any help they...
BILLINGS, Mont.: The Thoreaus-with-guns Montana Freemen disdain to recognize the U.S. justice system. The system has been quick to return the sentiment. As opening statements began Tuesday in the trial of six Freemen for abetting other Freemen in their 1996 standoff with the FBI, four of them watched on TV from a holding cell, banished from the courtroom Monday for shouting and cursing. Two sat at the defense table but also refused to participate as their court-appointed lawyers began their opening statements...
...standoff should be quicker than the last one, which went on for 81 days. Jury selection was completed in just one day, and prosecutors are already promising the jury videotapes that show the six defendants committing violent acts, carrying weapons and robbing two TV news crews. In May, the Freemen leaders will go on trial for bank fraud and a host of other charges; by then they'll be able to judge for themselves the merits of intransigence as a legal strategy...