Word: summerton
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...finder he has few peers. Armed with a tiny Olivetti typewriter, a briefcase full of timetables, and a single suitcase, Martin spent 24 months on the segregation story, patiently persuading his sources-black and white alike-that he was neither a crusader nor a critic, spent three days in Summerton, S.C. convincing the head of the Citizens' Council that he just wanted to get the Council's side of the story. Back in his nine-room Victorian house in the Chicago suburb of Highland Park, Martin took another four months to write his series. He ground no personal...
...Taking up one of the five original cases that led the U.S. Supreme Court to make its decision against school segregation, a federal circuit court in Columbia, S.C. forbade the trustees of the Summerton school district to bar any pupil from any school because of his race, ordered them to proceed "with all deliberate speed" to end discrimination in the schools...