Word: theron
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Missouri, which does most of its running on dirt tracks, won the team championship with 14 points. The outstanding performance of the meet was Morgan State's record 3:15.6 in the mile relay. Theron Lewis of Southern University ran the 440 in 47.8 seconds, and Okla homa State's two mile relay team recorded a near-record time...
...Theron Lewis...
...down South, Negroes are still being denied the right to vote. In Forrest County, Miss., the Rev. John Miles Barnes, a Negro with a tenth-grade education, who has tried to register several times a year for the past eleven years, tried again last week. He failed. Voting Registrar Theron C. Lynd, who has already been cited for contempt for failing to obey a federal court order, asked Barnes to copy and interpret a section of the Mississippi constitution. Lynd was, as usual, dissatisfied with the result. According to the Justice Department, other Negroes found illiterate by Lynd include five...