Word: motel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Just 2 hrs. and 10 min. after President Johnson had signed the bill, Maddox ordered three Negroes away from his place at gunpoint. Then, a three-judge panel in Atlanta ordered him to desegregate the Pickrick, but instead, he and Moreton Rolleston Jr., operator of the Heart of Atlanta Motel, asked Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black (who oversees the South's Fifth Judicial Circuit) to stay the effectiveness of the lower court's ruling. Black refused to do so, explaining that to delay the enforcement of the law would be an "unjustifiable" restraint on the will of Congress...
...trial last week, Judge Simpson let the motel and restaurant owners convict Manucy & Co. The owners told of being picketed by whites carrying such intimidating signs as "Niggers Eat Here. Would You?" Many reported anonymous phone calls: "You're not gonna make it home if you keep serving them." Eddy Mussallem of the Caravan Motel said he called everybody from the sheriff to the state police, only to be told that the pickets were doing nothing illegal. With unwitting irony, Tom Xynidis of the Sea Fair Restaurant told Judge Simpson that he was afraid of obeying...
...world there is no motel like the Bilu. In Naples one day last week, several hundred tourists drove in and parked their cars, carted what they wanted into their cabins, fed the kids at the cafeteria and tucked them in, downed a drink or two at the bar or lived it up a little at the nightclub. Next day they gathered around the well-bikinied pool. The unique thing about it was that they were all at sea-literally. The Bilu is a motel that makes a 62-hour, 1,200-mile voyage twice a week between Italy and Israel...
...argument was heard before a three-judge panel in Atlanta, where Government attorneys sought injunctions against two local establishments, the Heart of Atlanta Motel, and the Pickrick restaurant, a fried-chicken emporium. It was at the Pickrick, on the day after President Johnson signed the civil rights bill into law, that Owner Lester Maddox ordered three Negro ministerial students away from the place at gunpoint...
Predictably, the Heart of Atlanta Motel and Pickrick will take the cases to the U.S. Supreme Court. Vowed Pickrick's Maddox: "I'm not going to integrate. I've made my pledge. They won't ever get any of that chicken...