Word: maddox
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...publicity has been orchestrated by Brawley Lawyers Alton Maddox and Vernon Mason, veterans of New York City's race-drenched politics, and Pentecostal Minister Al Sharpton, a rabble-rouser from Brooklyn who calls New York Governor Mario Cuomo a racist and has likened State Attorney General Robert Abrams, special prosecutor in the case, to Hitler. Sharpton even contends that the assault is part of a racist plot linked to the Irish Republican Army...
...right side of the bus was completely torn off, so the seats were completely exposed," said Teri Maddox, a reporter for the weekly Winter Park Manifest and one of the first people on the scene...
Though it seemed at times like a reprise of the wild civil rights battles of the 1960s, with television cameras once again dancing attendance, some important things had changed since the days of red-neck heroes like ex- Governor Lester Maddox (who made an appearance with the white supremacists). Said Georgia's current Governor Joe Frank Harris: "We do not and will not tolerate a rabble-rousing, troublemaking element that casts a negative image on a state whose race relations have been marked in large measure by harmony, goodwill and peaceful coexistence." William Bradford Reynolds, head of the Justice Department...
...seek employment elsewhere. It is time for the Harvard faculty, the "untouchables", to respond. As a matter of fact, it is their obligation to do so. The students should not be bullied into a retreat that will literally consign the entire student body to unnecessary days of drudgery. Steven Maddox...
Defense Attorney Alton Maddox contended that the attempted robbery never took place. The prosecution, Maddox charged, was trying to frame Jonah Perry to avoid murder charges against Van Houten, who in two years as a policeman had an unblemished record. Said Maddox: "The fact that you have a badge and a gun does not allow you to do everything under the sun, and somebody had better send that message to the New York police department...