Word: griffin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Marvin Griffin, Governor of Georgia and a leading opponent of integration, will debate Jacob K. Javits, New York State Attorney General, on the issue of Southern segregation here April 13 in a Law School Forum...
...Griffin has consistently been an outspoken Southern leader in his defiance of the Supreme Court's ruling banning segregation in public schools. Georga's legislature in January gave Griffin power to close the public schools, if necessary, to prevent integration...
Freshman coach Bruce Munro said that his team played its "poorest first-half game of the season, bar none," but singled out Griffin McClellan, high Crimson scorer with 18 points, team captain George Harrington and reserveman Roger Rawden for fine performances...
...three who "resigned" from the NCC is David B. Cole '55, "Intelligence Officer," who was expelled from the club last March. As of last night, six former members of the League refused to follow the lead of Thompson, Cole, and Thomas C. Griffin...
Georgia's Griffin, most militant among the four, wanted to use stronger language. He insisted that interposition implied 1) a state's right to nullify federal laws, 2) a state governor's right to call out state forces to defend states' rights. "Without these essential provisions," said Griffin, "there is no interposition." But Griffin's reckless bluster was not yet the tone of the South's leaders. The other three governors reflected the painful tension that racks serious Southerners who are unable to face the prospect of desegregation and who are reluctant to defy...