Word: mccalls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pupils had just signed a special petition to TIME about the plight of the five children of Orange Picker Allan Platt (TIME, Dec. 13). Though the Platts had insisted that they are of Irish-Indian descent-and had documents to prove it-Mt. Dora's Sheriff Willis McCall arbitrarily decided that they are Negroes, and ordered them out of the school. TIME'S story had said that, except for Editor Mabel Norris Reese, no one seemed to care. The petitioners simply wanted "the world to know" that they...
...might be Negroes. Principal Roseborough quickly reassured them: he had checked in Holly Hill, S.C., where the Platts lived last year, found that though they had Indian blood, they were officially listed as white. That seemed to satisfy most everyone-except Mount Dora's beefy, dictatorial Sheriff Willis McCall...
Over the years, Sheriff McCall has built up quite a reputation for himself on the Negro question. In 1951 he made national news by shooting two Negro suspects in the Groveland, Fla., rape case. This fall he took up the cause of the race-baiting National Association for the Advancement of White People, was warmly welcomed by the N.A.A.W.P.'s Organizer Bryant Bowles as an "expert" in race relations. For such an expert, the case of the Platts was made to order. McCall decided to pay them a little visit...
...into her office and threatened to get even with her "if I have to stay in [this] county two years." Meanwhile, an unidentified man called on the Platts' landlady, told her she had better get rid of them or "the house might burn down." Race Relations Expert Willis McCall was not impressed by the Platts' ancestry. Said he at an N.A.A.W.P. rally: "There must have been a smoked Irishman in the woodpile...
...Eaton, who had put in a bid for Follansbee a month before, and failed, won the mill this time because Republic Steel agreed to call off its deal with Richmond. No news could have pleased Follansbee more. Said the steel company's general foreman, Boyd McCall: "This is the best Christmas present the people of Follansbee could get. And Mr. Eaton is the Santa Claus...