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...initiation fee, plus a $5,250 bond and $3,900 yearly dues. In times gone by, those economic facts alone might have barred most blacks. But, just in case, the sport had overtly racist rules and practices. Blacks did not play in the elite Masters tournament in Augusta, Ga., for 41 years. The phrase "Caucasian race only" was part of the P.G.A.'s eligibility rules until...
Thomas was born with the help of a midwife in 1948 in a wooden house close to the marshes in Pin Point, Ga., a segregated enclave without paved streets or sewers. His mother Leola Williams, only 18 when he was born, already had an infant daughter. When Thomas was two, his father walked out on the family, heading to Philadelphia in search of a better life. Pregnant with a third child, Thomas' mother lived in a dirt-floor one-room shack that belonged to an aunt and went to work at the factory next door, picking crabmeat for 5 cents...
Prosecutors contended that Moody, an amateur scientist from Rex, Ga., was also responsible for bombs that were intercepted at the federal court in Atlanta and the N.A.A.C.P. office in Jacksonville, for a tear-gas bomb that exploded in the Atlanta office of the N.A.A.C.P. and for threatening letters to judges and TV stations. Prosecutors said Moody tried to make the bombings appear racially motivated but that he really wanted to damage the court system because of a 1972 conviction for bomb possession. "Retaliation is a way of life for Mr. Moody," said Assistant U.S. Attorney Louis Freeh, "and the court...
Those who say that the parades are too gaudy and grand might, for example, consider them as acts of contrition. "We are overreacting a bit," says Troy Putman, an accountant in Norcross, Ga., "but patriotism is such a great alternative to what we have had. A major reason for the overreaction is that we are looking over the shoulders of the gulf soldiers and giving delayed honors to the Vietnam veterans...
Choosing a valedictorian is usually a simple matter: the pupil with the top grades gets the honor. But for two rival students at Newton County High School in Covington, Ga., even a federal judge couldn't settle a dispute that has roiled the racially volatile school...