Word: grenada
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...facts were more outrageous than those surrounding last year's demonstrations in Grenada, Miss. There Clayton himself had previously ordered a speedup in the local schools' desegregation, but when Negro children attempted to enter the schools, they were savagely beaten. Judge Clayton bluntly ordered the police to protect the children henceforth and sentenced Strong-arm Constable Grady Carroll to four months for contempt of court. Said one of the lawyers in the courtroom: "You should have seen Carroll's face. The man was just astounded-a Mississippi judge doing this to a Mississippi law officer...
...always equal conviction, especially in civil rights cases. Still, acquittal seemed unlikely last week for eight white men on trial in U.S. District Judge Claude Clayton's court in Oxford. The cause of it all was a wild white mob that undeniably tried to halt school integration in Grenada last fall by flailing Negro schoolchildren with fists, feet, clubs and chains. According to the U.S. prosecutor, the defendants, including a justice of the peace, were part of that mob -and he had 25 witnesses to prove...
Character Witnesses. The star prosecution witness was one of the defendants' peers, Grenada Police Captain W. C. Turner, who described how Archie Larry Campbell and Donald Wayne Bain attacked a Negro boy walking to school. "As he approached the library," said Turner, "Mr. Campbell walked across the street and hit him with something. I don't know what it was. Then the boy was laying on the sidewalk. Mr. Bain was kicking him in the face. He was bleeding about the nose and mouth." Turner said that he also saw Jerome Shaw smash the windows...
...Antiguan independence. Ever since Britain began the evacuation of empire, even the tiniest of its island colonies in the West Indian crescent has craved recognition of its separate identity. Last week Britain granted "associated statehood"-something above colonial status but below independence-not only to Antigua but also to Grenada, St. Lucia, Dominica and the group of St. Kitts-Nevis-Anguilla. In May, St. Vincent will get "associated statehood." The new states will conduct most of their affairs through popularly elected legislatures, but by mutual agreement, Britain will handle (and pay the bills for) their foreign affairs and defense. Full...
...soil of these lush islands, but today they are rich only in scenery, have precarious, one-crop economies, which have been hurt by increased competition abroad. The St. Kitts-Nevis-Anguilla group (pop.: 60,000) suffers from uncertain prices for its sugar. The fortunes of St. Lucia (100,000), Grenada (88,000) and Dominica (67,000) slide or surge along with the world price for their bananas. Only Antigua (65,000), with its casino and 33 hotels, attracts a sizable tourist crowd; it needs visitors more than usual this year because drought has ruined the sugar crop...