Word: lumpkin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Georgia, Lumpkin County Sheriff Kenneth Seabolt has been raising money for Goetz. Seabolt did not condone the illegal gun, but said, "I'm glad to see someone who's got enough guts to stand up for his rights." The sheriff's actions outraged the president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, the Rev. Joseph Lowery. "When someone sworn to uphold the law raises money to help a lawless individual, somebody ought to check into that," he said. "We want to make a hero out of Goetz, which was made a little easier because the four victims were black...
Richard A. Lumpkin Mattoon...
...morning, outside St. Peter's Episcopal Church in Detroit, about 20 men slouch against a wall, waiting for Father Tom Lumpkin to open a soup kitchen. Some are the traditional clients: winos and street people, refugees from a coherent, workaday life. But these days there is a new and growing group whose presence seems to Father Lumpkin a shocking sign of Michigan's economic blues. They are men in their prime, sturdy, able but unemployed, and baffled to find themselves taking charity...