Word: georgias
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...young man who likes to speak his mind. As it hap pens, some of the things that Bond, 26, a Negro pacifist and civil rights worker, has on his mind -sympathy for draft-card burners and extreme opposition to the war in Viet Nam - proved highly unpalatable to the Georgia house of representatives. Twice this year house members voted against allowing him to sit among them as the duly elected member from Atlanta's 136th Legisla tive District...
Last week the Supreme Court unanimously ruled that the Georgia house violated Bond's First Amendment guar antee of freedom of speech by refusing to grant him his seat. The right to make such statements as Bond's "I admire the courage of anyone who burns his draft card" would not be denied a private citizen, wrote Chief Justice Earl Warren in the court's decision. All the more should they not be denied a legislator, who has, in fact, a duty to speak out on controversial questions so that his constituents can know where he stands...
...Committee until last September, and has been an articulate advocate and organizer of the New Left. For much of the past year, he has supported his wife and three children by writing and lecturing, now has a book in the works on his rebuffs by the legislature. Title: A Georgia House Is Not a Home...
...lost pay from the last session, can also expect $5,200 in pay and expenses from the upcoming session. By doggedly challenging the hostile sentiment of the legislature, Bond has guaranteed the basic right of unpopular legislators, both Negro and white. He will not be alone in the Georgia legislature: ten other Negroes were elected last month, and none of them has been challenged...
Other state Baptist conventions tried to define what forms of Government aid their institutions could accept without violating church principles. Arkansas and Louisiana rejected federal grants but ruled that loans were acceptable. The conventions of Texas and Georgia, after stormy debate, rejected even federal loans. The Arizona convention also rejected loans and grants, but ambiguously left church institutions free to accept certain Government payments "for services rendered...