Word: gideons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...When Gideon Jackson told them, the freedmen of Carwell Plantation said "Hallelujah," and relaxed their fears of this first mysterious repercussion of freedom. But the fright in the giant frame of Gideon was greater than it had ever been in battle. The Voting had made him a delegate...
When the South Carolina State Constitutional Convention assembled in Charleston in 1868, Gideon Jackson was one of 76 Negroes among the 124 members. Scorned by the sulking gentry, berated by the press, abysmally confused, most of them despaired of accomplishing anything...
...like Gideon, who slowly learned to read and write, the Convention slowly caught on. By the time it adjourned, it had fashioned a sound basis for a democratic community of whites and Negroes. It had provided for equality at the polls, compulsory education, the breakdown of the plantation system...
...Under Gideon's leadership, the poor whites and Negroes of Carwell joined forces to buy the land they lived on. Seldom molested by the Ku Klux Klan as long as Federal troops were around, they worked and prospered. Nine years after the Convention, they had their own homes, schools, mills, ideas. Gideon's eldest son, Jeff, was back from Scotland with a medical degree, and Gideon himself was a Representative in Congress...
Afrikaners Gideon Blignaut, 24 and Antonie Botha, 22, were at work in Johannesburg's Pass Office. When Robert Chanke, an elderly Negro from upcountry Transvaal, shuffled into their room seeking a work permit, the white clerks tried to make him admit illegal entry from Rhodesia. Chanke insisted that he lived in a Transvaal kraal, had a right to work in Johannesburg...