Word: griffin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Georgia's Governor-elect Marvin Griffin, a tireless white supremecist, was determined to get around the Supreme Court's decision against segregation in public schools. Hearing of hopeful talk in Washington that the South will eventually have sober second thoughts about the decision, Griffin drawled genially: "This business of going easy on us doesn't interest me ... I'm not for any cooling-off period. I'm for segregation, period. If the end of segregation comes 50 years from now, it wouldn't be a bit better...
...ADRIENNE GRIFFIN...
...Advancement and Protection of the Majority of the White People, chartered in Georgia last June, claims it will fight "any and all legal actions brought to destroy segregation laws between the White Race and the Colored Race." Among its founders: Dr. Marvin Head, onetime Chief Klansman of Griffin...
Last week the trustees picked as president Frank L. Griffin, 73, former mathematics professor. And the question still remains, said Duncan Ballantine bitterly, "does Reed really want a president...
...Lieut. Governor S. Marvin Griffin of Atlanta: let city and county school boards assign each student to a school. Griffin also suggested a residency requirement to keep "foreign agitators" out of the state. "Social equality," said he, "is impossible. The schools are not going to be mixed come hell or high water...