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Southern newspapers routinely relegated announcements of black births, deaths and marriages to special Jim Crow pages. In 1956, the Wilmington, N.C., Star went to press with a frontpage photo of four Marines who were to testify in the court-martial of a drill instructor charged with brutality. When an editor noticed that one of the witnesses was black, he ordered an employee to chisel the Negro's image out of the press plate. The paper appeared with a ragged white space where the black face had been...
...other historical figures. In his letter requesting a formal hearing, Brown-Beasley wrote: "Your 'investigation,' gentlemen, was not a search for truth at all, but rather a shameless 'cover-up.' It will go down in the annals of illegality together with the 'investigations' associated with the irregular court-martial of Captain Alfred Dreyfus in France, and the (mis-) trials of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti in Massachusetts, against the injustice of which latter infamy Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter, among others, felt compelled to speak out while professor of Administrative Law here at Harvard. And, gentlemen, in my case also...
...long run, the growth of Communist political influence poses a greater danger to the Marcos regime than the N.P.A.'s ineffectual military wing. At the same time, part of Marcos' problem is growing unrest-particularly among university students and the Christian churches-over the continuation of martial law, with its suspension of civil liberties. The government plans a referendum next month on the retention of martial law. Two previous referendums in 1973 and 1975 indicated yes by some 90%. This time the results are widely believed to have been equally lutong macao, or precooked...
...Aquino has been brought before military tribunals three times since his arrest, but each time the case was postponed when he eloquently rejected the rights of Marcos' martial law regime...
Detroit resorted to near martial law after roving gangs of young toughs with names like the Black Killers, the Errol Flynns, the Sheridan Strips and the Bishops virtually took over the streets of the city's scrubby east side. Perhaps as many as 500 of the gang members are concentrated in the impoverished Fifth Precinct, a 6-sq.-mi. moonscape of abandoned storefronts, crumbling homes and schools, littered streets and sidewalks. Once a quiet white community, the precinct is nearly all black, its various sections divided into territories controlled by one or another of the gangs...