Word: mclaurin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Claiborne County, the two-member white staff quit. Mrs. Collins is black. Dan Nixon, a Negro magistrate in Brownsville, Tenn., was never informed of the date for the swearing-in ceremony after his election and had to seek out a local judge to be formally installed in office. Griffin McLaurin, a black constable in Tchula, Miss., has a problem with the white justice of the peace in his district. Says McLaurin: "When I bring someone in on a traffic charge, if it's a white man, he'll let him go. But if it's a Negro...
...John McLaurin and Benjamin ("Pitchfork Ben") Tillman, both South Carolina Democrats, who exchanged insults-then blows-on the Senate floor in 1902, giving rise to Senate Rule XIX, which bars senatorial character assassination...
...argument will have on the mass of America's 20 million Negroes is something else. A rally in Indianola, along the march route last week, proved only that the mob is most susceptible to the last pitch it has heard. Addressing the crowd there, S.N.C.C. Field Secretary Charles McLaurin advised, "When people say, 'What do you want?' don't say 'freedom!' Say 'black power!' " Then McLaurin shouted, "What do you want?" Yelled the crowd: "Black power!" Minutes later, Ralph Abernathy turned up and asked the crowd, "What do you want?" "Black power...
...LYNDA MCLAURIN Freshman...
...Director-Counsel Marshall pierced "separate but equal" segregation when the Supreme Court ordered Heman Sweatt admitted as the first Negro at the University of Texas Law School and told the University of Oklahoma to stop isolating Negro Graduate Student George McLaurin. Sweatt and McLaurin opened the way for 1954's Brown v. Board of Education, the landmark Supreme Court decision against school segregation. After that came a virtually unbroken string of Inc. Fund triumphs against segregated buses, beaches, golf courses, hospitals and courtrooms-the major victories of the U.S. civil rights revolution...