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...Confederacy. Naturally the town has a school named after Stephens, and though nearly all other Georgia schools are now integrated, its classrooms remain Stephens-white. Last summer, presumably to qualify for sorely needed federal funds, county officials assured Washington that they stood ready to open Stephens to Negroes. Thereupon, white parents transferred their children in droves to schools in neighboring counties. Though 70 of 560 eligible Negroes applied for admission to the white school, Stephens was closed...
...Public men," said the judge, "are public property." In a signal victory for the U.S. press, Judge Gordon found the defendants not guilty of actual malice, since they merely transmitted what they believed to be accurate news. He thereupon dismissed the case "with prejudice," meaning that Walker cannot refile a similar suit against the Louisville defendants...
...telephone lines to steal the copper wire. By all the evidence, each of D'Andrea's six jurors met the legal requirements: they were local citizens who had no felony convictions and were registered voters. They were also, as it happened, all Negroes, and D'Andrea thereupon wound up with what was reportedly the first all-Negro jury to try a white man in Florida...
Died. Benjamin Gitlow, 73, organizer and onetime general secretary of the U.S. Communist Party, who was summarily read out of the movement in 1929 after rejecting Stalin's demand for greater subservience of the U.S. party to the Soviet Union, thereupon wrote a detailed expose of Red activities in the U.S., became a star witness of the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1953, was widely criticized for falsely accusing others of Communist complicity, later drifted into obscurity; of a heart attack; in Crompond...
Clark began his talk by saying that it was symbolic that he, a Negro, should be speaking last and be deprived of some of his speaking time. Thereupon, Mark DeWolfe Howe, professor of Law, broke in with the reminder that "everyone has equal time...