Word: va
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...After the lighting of cigars and swearing to the Legion's pledge of "100% Americanism," debate began. The national command had one defense ("Veterans are a selected group") and one tacit assumption: any change in the Veterans Administration would loosen the Legion's traditional grip on VA matters. Merson's forces argued only that the Hoover proposals would be more efficient. Cried Merson: "Shall we be rubber stamps of the Legion hierarchy-or shall we be free men, following each the dictates of his own conscience? Let us stand up and be counted...
...Martinsville Seven were seven Negroes who had confessed to raping the wife of a Martinsville, Va. store manager just two years ago. They had been duly tried and convicted, their cases had twice been carried to the U.S. Supreme Court, which refused to review them. Even the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, which provided legal counsel for the prisoners' appeal, did not seriously question their guilt; it argued that they were denied equal treatment under the 14th Amendment, pointing out that since 1908, Virginia had executed 45 Negroes for rape, but no white...
ROBERT LEE BOYD Wheeling, W. Va...
Portsmouth, Va...
Lynchburg, Va...