Word: richmond
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...petition filed with the U.S. District Court in Richmond, Wallace, a Negro, said that no member of his race could receive a fair trial in a Farmville court. The Virginia town is the seat of Prince Edward County, which closed its public schools in 1959 when a court ordered them to integrate...
Wallace requested to be tried by the Richmond court, basing his request on the equal protection provision of the 14th Amendment...
...PARKS Richmond...
Linking North & South. Some lines prosper because of quirks of nature or of men. The biggest, busiest and most profitable of the bridge roads is the 129-year-old Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac, whose 117-mile main line between Washington and Richmond-protected from competition in earlier decades by its part-owner, the state of Virginia-is still the only coastal link between North and South. All North-South traffic takes the R.F. & P.; over it daily thunder 23 passenger trains and ten freights bound from one to another of the six Class I roads (the Pennsy, the Southern...
Pucker Up & Blow. The Jug Band's anchor man is Fritz Richmond, 24, a shaggy, red-haired bean pole who plays washtub, stovepipe and jug. He is so immersed in washtub playing that once, while in the Army, he got carried away and played a Quonset hut by nailing the door shut, stringing a wire from the doorknob to the tip of a 10-ft. pole and strumming. "It made a deep, very deep sound," he says, lost in wonder at the effect. His present instrument is a $2.49 Sears, Roebuck washtub, but metal fatigue forces...