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...DIED. SEYBOURN LYNNE, 93, the longest-serving active U.S. federal judge, who in 1963 famously ordered Governor George Wallace not to bar two black students from attending the University of Alabama; in Birmingham...
...Elmwood Cemetery, which is near his childhood home. Terry Was cut down on a search-and-destroy mission last July. When Elmwood rejected his family's application for a plot, he was temporarily interred in one of Birmingham's black cemeteries. In his decision, Federal Judge Seybourn Lynne cited a Supreme Court ruling last month that desegregated a neighborhood-owned swimming club in Fairfax County, Va. (TIME, Dec. 26). Both cases, said Lynne, provide examples of restrictive covenants that were outlawed by the Civil Rights Act of 1866. Thus, more than a century after the Civil War, Elmwood...
...time had come to deliver on that promise. But Wallace's fighting spirit had pretty well drained away. Alabama was sick of racial violence; the state's most influential citizens put heavy pressure on Wallace, urging him not to cause trouble. Moreover, Federal Judge Seybourn Lynne had ordered Wallace not to obstruct the Negro students. The judge privately warned Wallace's lawyers that if he disobeyed the order he would face a prison term...
Beyond the Law? To forestall this possibility, the U.S. Justice Department last week filed a complaint against Wallace in Birmingham's Federal Court, asked for an injunction prohibiting Wallace from carrying out his threat. Federal Judge Seybourn H. Lynne ordered Wallace to appear before him on June 3 to show cause why an injunction should not be issued to prevent him from blocking the Negroes at the university. Said Attorney General Robert Kennedy: "We are prepared to abide by the court's decision, and we would hope and expect that Governor Wallace will do the same...
...Civil War killed slavery as an institution, but not as an occasional form of criminal behavior. The U.S. Department of Justice from time to time finds violators of the anti-peonage act of 1867; since mid-1950 it has successfully prosecuted ten. Last week Federal Judge Seybourn H. Lynne in Birmingham sentenced Farmers Oscar and Fred Dial to 18 months in prison for holding Negroes in involuntary servitude...
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