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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...changes as the desegregation of the local schools, bus stations and hospital, the hiring of black policemen and the elimination of such terms of address as boy, girl, shine and uncle. In February 1967 the boycott was eased after the town hired its first black policeman. Twice more-after Martin Luther King's assassination in 1968 and the police shooting of a Port Gibson black in 1969-the N.A.A.C.P. again turned the boycott screw. But by then the Mississippi legislature had enacted a civil and criminal law banning any "conspiracy" to prevent a citizen from exercising a "lawful trade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: The Siege of Port Gibson | 10/11/1976 | See Source »

...transmuted into "Wait 'til next year." But in Cincinnati, Philadelphia, New York and, after a sinking spell, Kansas City, September had its joys. Division flags were flying. The Big Red Machine still hummed, the Phillies survived themselves, the Yankees were back on top with Billy Martin, the Royals edged into their kingdom. October was at hand, and baseball gets serious with the league play-offs and the World Series...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Getting Serious | 10/11/1976 | See Source »

Miller press aides cancelled the credentials of Frank Martin, a reporter for the Trotskyist Workers League's twice-weekly Bulletin, and informed Workers Vanguard reporter Mark Lance that he would be denied credentials to enter the convention hall, explaining that the union could not guarantee his physical safety. Prior to this, union officials had advised five other reporters for left-wing newspapers that they should leave the convention "for your own sake...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Against Red-Baiting | 10/9/1976 | See Source »

...trial yesterday morning a Middlesex District Court judge found Martin Sousa of Arlington not guilty of a charge of "malicious destruction of property" for breaking windows at the Cambion plant April...

Author: By Peter Frawley, | Title: Cambion Official Charged With Assault on Worker | 10/9/1976 | See Source »

Nineteen years, almost to the day, that he was unceremoniously dismissed in the midst of a ceremony, Phil Rizzuto stood on the field during Yankee Old Timer's Day and watched his old teammate Billy Martin take cheers as the team's new manager. Rizzuto was gray by 1975 and wore inexplicably large tinted aviator glasses which made him look like a 1,000,000X blown up slide of a house fly. If I were pretending to be omniscient I would tell you how Rizzuto felt watching Martin walk on the field to a huge ovation. ("Phil felt a lump...

Author: By Peter Kaplan, | Title: Back in the Ballpark | 10/8/1976 | See Source »

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