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Word: seybourn (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: Integrating the Graveyard | 1/5/1970 | See Source »

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