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...first, in 1902, was a dual motion, aimed at the two Democratic Senators from South Carolina, Benjamin R. Tillman and John L. McLaurin. "Pitchfork Ben"* Tillman, an ill-mannered, unprincipled demagogue, a master of the unfounded accusation (in a sense, the McCarthy of his day), started a fist fight with McLaurin on the Senate floor. Fellow Senators pulled them apart, later voted to censure both. Tillman survived the dishonor, was later re-elected to the Senate twice, and died in office. McLaurin served out his term, but did not seek reelection. The bad blood between the two men was caused...
...When ex-Schoolteacher George McLaurin entered the University of Oklahoma law school, he was subjected to a number of indignities. He was forced to sit alone outside his classrooms; there was a special place for him in the library, a special table in the cafeteria, a special toilet he was supposed to use. But since then, other Negroes have gone to Oklahoma, and all such clumsy attempts at segregation have gradually disappeared. Says O.U.'s Vice President Roscoe Gate: "[This] success has depended largely on the student body...
...Florida Supreme Court. The state justices had upheld a Miami ordinance prohibiting Negroes form playing on a municipal golf course except on one day a week. The high bench, however, cancelled that finding and directed reconsideration "in the light of" its June decisions in the Sweatt and McLaurin cases...
Herman M. Sweatt claimed that Texas violated his constitutional rights when it refused to admit him to the state university, while McLaurin argued that Oklahoma's state law school had illegally practiced segregation against him. Both tried to convince the Court that separate facilities cannot be equal...
...Ordered the University of Oklahoma to stop segregating Graduate Student G. W. McLaurin, a Negro, in its classrooms. He had been admitted to classes with whites, but first put in a little anteroom. Later, like 23 other Negroes at Oklahoma, he was simply seated in a different row from the whites...