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...controversy. On a cold Sunday night in December 1968, six ranking members of the state house of representatives, just half a block down State Street, had dropped by for something to eat. The group included Jewish, Irish, Italian and Russian-American legislators and one black. House Majority Leader K. Leroy Irvis. "We were a real United Nations group," recalls Representative Harry A. Englehart Jr., a Moose from western Pennsylvania, who had suggested that they dine at the lodge since most restaurants in town were closed...
...already knew." A local lawyer volunteered to bring a suit in federal court, and Irvis, himself a lawyer, took his case to the state human rights commission. Lodge 107 made no effort to conceal its policy. "Refusal of service," the lodge admitted before the commission, "was because K. Leroy Irvis is a Negro...
...into the 16th century to deliver a dash of truthful bitters, then fading out to make way for another stretch of camp biography. With admirable devotion to accuracy Leonardo's lines are limited to sentiments that actually survive in his notebooks. The result is that French Actor Philippe Leroy, who plays him, has little to do but brood burningly upon the world while lines of primordial exposition clatter about him. (Penny-pinching grandfather: "What's the good of all this schooling? It does not put bread on the table...
...LEROY M. GAINES
...someone of other than the Caucasian or White race, who are of good moral character, physically and mentally normal, who shall profess a belief in a Supreme Being." Refused service as a guest in both the bar and the dining room of Lodge 107 in Harrisburg, Pa., K. Leroy Irvis, a black Pennsylvania legislator, brought a test suit under the 14th Amendment's equal-protection clause...