Word: richmond
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Republican opponent, A. Linwood Holton, 42, a Roanoke lawyer. Holton campaigned energetically against the poll tax, on which Godwin refused to commit himself, and promised to recruit Negroes for appointment to high office. But the Negro voters broke with their tradition of supporting G.O.P. candidates in state elections. Richmond's almost solidly Negro First Precinct reflected the shift: though it went 10 to 1 for the Republican gubernatorial candidate in 1961, last week it supported Democrat Godwin...
...sponsoring a folk concert tonight at 8 p.m. in the Rindge Tech auditorium featuring John Hammond Jr., Gram Parsons '69, Geoff Muldaur, Mitch Greenhill, Fritz Richmond, and the Jim Kweskin Trio. Tickets may be purchased at the door...
...Cause. Now, as he had in the Coleman trial, Alabama's Attorney General Richmond Flowers exercised his right to supersede the county prosecutor. As far as he was concerned, his state's jury selection system was as much on trial as was the defendant. Relentlessly, Flowers and an assistant questioned each prospective juror, asking him whether he thought the white race superior to the Negro, whether he felt that any person like Mrs. Liuzzo who associated with Negroes thereby made herself inferior to other whites. Over vehement defense objections, Judge Thagard let Flowers get his answers. In short...
...Richmond Flowers, Attorney General of Alabama, has won northern praise and southern notoriety for his opposition to Alabama Governor George Wallace. Several weeks ago he was thrown out of a Lowndes County courtroom when he tried to take over the prosecution of Thomas L. Coleman, charged with killing a white civil rights worker. This week he was back in the same courtroom, this time handling the case against Collie Leroy Wilkins Jr., accused of murdering another white civil rights worker, Mrs. Viola G. Liuzzo...
MONTGOMERY, Ala.--"By 1970, there will be absolutely, no chance for anybody to be elected here who doesn't counsel moderation," said Attorney General Richmond Flowers in an interview recently...