Word: georgias
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Resolutions passed, included one directing telegrams of protest to President Truman, Attorney General Tom Clark, and Governor Ellis Arnall of Georgia, in regard to the recent lynchings and race troubles in the south. A second telegram objected to the limitation of negro enlistments in the new Army and Navy enlistment drives...
Gene Talmadge's campaign to be governor of Georgia had ripped the thin gauze of decency from the body of his state. Last week the nation saw the running sores beneath...
...Rupert District of South Georgia's Taylor County, Macie Snipes was the only Negro to vote. The day after election four white men called him out from supper. Macie Snipes staggered back into the house with blood gushing from the bullet wounds in his belly. A coroner's jury solemnly reported that he had been killed by one of his visitors in self defense...
...Major William F. Spence, Georgia State Police head, complained: "We just can't cope with the case. . . . The best people in town won't talk about this." Loy Harrison, who had lived in those parts all his life, still could not identify either members of the mob or its "dressed mighty proud" ringleader...
...wake of Georgia's primary, 60-year-old Editor J. B. Hardy sat down and penned a bitter editorial for his Thomaston Times...