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Word: sheriffdom (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1966-1966
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...Tone. If the Negro vote was not powerful enough to thwart the Wallaces' gambit, it managed nonetheless to shake such local despotisms as the Dallas County sheriffdom of Jim Clark, the nationally televised heavy of the Selma march last year, and to settle old scores against the likes of Al Lingo, the onetime state police chief who was humiliatingly beaten in his primary bid to become the sheriff of Jefferson County (Birmingham...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The South: A Corner Turned | 5/13/1966 | See Source »

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