Word: gantt
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...Right to Kill. Summing up for the prosecution was Alabama's Assistant Attorney General Joseph Breck Gantt. "I don't want to talk about the Communist Party," he said, "or the Teamsters Union, or the N.A.A.C.P. or segregation or integration or whites or niggers or marches or demonstrations. I want to talk about a murder case that happened in Lowndes County." He argued that no man has the right to kill just because he is enraged at the sight of a white and a Negro sitting together in the same car. Such scenes, he said, are common...
Following Gantt was Prosecutor Gamble, who warned against "anarchy," urged that the jurors refuse to "put our stamp of approval on this kind of lawlessness." Said Gamble: "I don't agree with the purpose of this woman. But gentlemen, she was here, and she had a right to be here, and she had a right to be here without being killed. This was a coldblooded, middle-of-the-night killing that you cannot overlook. You've got to face...
Married. Harvey Gantt, 21, first Negro to crack South Carolina's white state colleges, after a federal court judge overruled his rejection by Clemson College in January 1963; and Lucinda Brawley, 18, first Negro girl at Clemson; in Hopkins...
Considering the cases of James Meredith at Ole Miss and Harvey Gantt at Clemson, Friendly said that "what might be a simple and quiet entrance of one Negro to one university could be transformed into a Roman circus, or indeed a riot, merely because we provided such an inviting audience and such a brilliant means for obtaining publicity." Friendly noted complaints that "the very presence of masses of reporters and photographers make what is already a difficult task close to impossible...
Lessons Learned. Things were much different in South Carolina, last of the Deep Dixie states to integrate any public school for so much as one hour. There, Harvey Bernard Gantt, 20, a second-year architecture transfer from Iowa State, walked through the front door of Clemson College's red-brick administration building. Gantt's peaceable entry into Clemson, a state-supported school with an enrollment of 4,000, was a triumph of good sense and planning. When it became obvious that Clemson would be required to accept Gantt, a call for law and order went out from business...