Word: sturgises
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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I was shocked and ashamed upon reading the first two letters in the Sept. 9 issue. Insults-to a woman [Althea Gibson] who has brought honor to our country, and to you who told her story. What kind of people are these? How do I explain their letters to my...
In Kentucky, state militiamen were called out last year to keep the peace in coal-mining Sturgis. What would happen in Sturgis this year? Chicago Bureau Correspondent Harrison Lilly was there to report.
Albert Benjamin ("Happy") Chandler, the sometimes clownish governor of Kentucky and the first announced candidate for President of the U.S. in 1960, has his faults-but racial demagoguery has never been one of them. Under Chandler the number of integrated school districts in Kentucky rose to 92 (out of 217...
The Sturgis crowd was on hand again for last week's school opening-and so were eight state troopers, thoughtfully dispatched to the scene by the Chandler administration. Seventeen Negro students arriving at the high school were jeered. A few handfuls of gravel and four or five empty soda...
That took the heart out of the Sturgis crowd. It was reduced to muttering about "police brutality." That night-under the watchful eyes of a detail of troopers-the local White Citizens League rallied, heard prayerful thanks because "God did not cross us with a sea gull or a crow...