Word: jails
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Claude L. Weaver '65, of Dunster House and Atlanta, Ga., is being held in a Mississippi jail for the second time in two months on a charge resulting from his participation in civil rights activities sponsored by the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC...
...bosomy young New Yorker named Victoria Claflin Woodhull, who ran for the presidency in 1872 as the Equal Rights Party candidate. Victoria billed herself as a Wall Street "businesswoman," publicly proclaimed her belief in spiritualism, vegetarianism, short skirts, legalized prostitution and free love. On election night she was in jail on an obscenity charge. She got very few votes. Ulysses Grant beat her out. Then there is Washington, D.C.'s Belva Ann Bennett Lockwood, the first woman lawyer ever to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court. She ran in 1884 and again in 1888 on the Equal Rights ticket...
...that was only a veneer. Last week Atlanta churned with scenes as ugly as those in any other race-torn city: Negroes rolled in the streets in front of paddy wagons, cops wrestled demonstrators off to jail, and whites and Negroes cursed and battered each other with their fists...
...drives a Jaguar and provides his daughter with a chestnut filly, which she rides about the slum. She and our hero fall to stealing things-just for kicks in her case. Their shared criminality lends something special to the times they have a bash. He goes to jail while she bears his child and is then killed. He grows up to semi-respectability (he now only steals on the job) and dourly watches his son grow up as the spoiled grandson of a rich...
...will be executed by being cut into pieces that will be spread on the streets. Still others will be thrown into the sea, while others will be tied to trees and shot by novice marksmen. Anyone who tries to be a hypocrite will be punished by 50 years in jail...