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...member of a three-judge panel, he held that segregation on Montgomery buses was unconstitutional-a decision that meant victory for the historic bus boycott led by Martin Luther King Jr. In 1959, Johnson ruled that segregation in public parks in Montgomery violated the Constitution. In 1961, he ordered Macon County voter-registration authorities to permit Negroes to register under precisely the same standards that the county applied to whites...
What earned Merritt his beating in Notasulga might in another locale have come under the heading of journalistic enterprise. He simply slipped aboard the school bus bearing the first Negro students to try to enter Macon County High School. He figured he could photograph the story from the youngsters' point of view. But law authorities had already gathered in force to prevent the token integration, and some of them had been tipped that a photographer...
...very young when I had my first experience in sitting behind the curtain," he says. "I felt just as if a curtain had come down across my whole life. The insult of it I will never forget." On another occasion, he and his schoolteacher were riding a bus from Macon to Atlanta when the driver ordered them to give up their seats to white passengers. "When we didn't move right away, the driver started cursing us out and calling us black sons of bitches. I decided not to move at all, but my teacher pointed out that...
...most worthless article, not even excepting the appeal for members by the Harvard Conservative Club, which publishes the sheet, is one entitled "Liberal Education and the Individual" by a Sharrel Keyes of Randolph Macon Woman's College. It is possible to determine that Miss Keyes rejects vocationalism, but otherwise it is a little hard to determine what sort of education she is talking about. She emphasized the importance of "spelling, mathematics, geography, and grammar," and then states the educated man "would find that mathematics and philosophy are not such strange bed-fellows and that Buddha's teachings can have meaning...
Judge Elbert Tuttle of Atlanta, chief judge of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, filed an order in Macon setting up a special three-judge panel to hear a suit seeking the release of the defendants. The suit charges that the defendants are being held illegally as a result of a "conspiracy" by state and local officials to halt the desegregation campaign in Americus...