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One leader who was having no part of such ruses was Maryland's Theodore Roosevelt McKeldin, governor of the state that had been directly ordered to end park and playground segregation. Said McKeldin: "Officials of the State of Maryland have never to my knowledge questioned the supremacy in the...
The Solemn Record. Behind the Unknown Soldier and his solitary guard lay the gently rolling countryside of northern Virginia and the 408 carefully tended acres of Arlington National Cemetery. In the cemetery lie the remains of 87,000, most of them military men and women, and on the headstones of...
One way to be unpopular in Holmes County, Miss. is to criticize the sheriff for mistreating a Negro. When good-looking, dark-haired Mrs. Hazel Brannon Smith, 41, tried this in the two weeklies she owns and edits, she found herself on the losing end of a libel suit filed...
It was a voice that, in front-page editorials or in her weekly column, "Through Hazel Eyes," had long sounded like the county's conscience. Just out of the University of Alabama, Hazel Brannon arrived in Holmes County in 1936, borrowed $3,000, bought the weekly Durant News (circ...
As bootlegging increased again in Holmes County, Editor Smith repeatedly attacked Sheriff Richard F. Byrd. Then, on the Fourth of July weekend last year, the sheriff drove up to a group of Negroes gathered about a small country store at Tehula. He asked one of them, Henry Randle, 27, what...