Word: georgias
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nominate, as Man of the Year, 1967, Dean Rusk, the U.S. Secretary of State, really not because he gave his daughter to a non-white but rather because of his great courage, despite his own background, his apparent belief in "to each his own," whether it is in Georgia, Washington, or even in the White House. DAVID D. KPOMAKPOR Monrovia, Liberia...
...Georgia's Governor Lester Maddox is not hardhearted - or incapable of the grand gesture. Last week he made the grandest gesture of his eleven-month gubernatorial career, turning loose a full 7% of the state's prison population -547 inmates who have three months or less yet to serve - for Christmas at home...
...such a huge batch of prisoners at any one time.º Maddox, however, was so pleased by the success of his discharge of 147 teen-age inmates in September (only nine have since had difficulty with the law) that he plans to make wholesale opening of prisons a Georgia yuletime tradition. "We realize," he said, "that in releasing this many, some will slip up. But most of all we are concerned with those who will not." This is his way, Maddox added, of saying "Merry Christmas to these people and their families...
...Hugo Black does not often give public speeches, but even a nippy November wind did not dissuade the senior Supreme Court justice from dedicating a new $2,750,000 addition to the University of Georgia Law School. "This law school," said Black, "is preparing itself to send out graduates with visions wide enough to become real leaders of high-minded...
After the Supreme Court, no single U.S. court has been more important to Negro civil rights than the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas all fall under its jurisdiction. So it is that when an opening occurs on the court, segregationists and civil rights lawyers hold their respective breaths until the President nominates a new man. Because of the court's work load, it was expanded last year from nine to thirteen judges. This week the final vacancy will be filled when Claude Feemster Clayton, 58, takes the path...