Word: valdosta
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...face of Hummon's ominous white-supremacy shouting, Georgia's Negro voters did not exactly rush to the polls. In Melvin Thompson's home town of Valdosta, Klansmen hoisted a fiery cross after his election-eve speech. In Bulloch County, Klansmen deposited a coffin on the doorstep of one Negro. In the piney woods area of Montgomery County, a 28-year-old Negro named Isaiah Nixon asked if he could vote. He was warned not to, the sheriff said, but voted anyhow. That night two men appeared at his house, shot him dead in front...
...Custom. In Valdosta, Ga., the watchful city council announced that henceforth liquor licenses would be required for any place of business selling...
...village" in Albany, a group of young wives formed the Women's Organization to War on Styles. In a few days, the W.O.W.S. rounded up 750 members, started picketing a dress shop in bathing suits. "We Have Nothing to Hide," said their placards, "Do We Need Padding?" At Valdosta, Ga., businessmen joined the fun, chartered the League of Broke Husbands, went picketing, too. A Georgia legislator announced that he would soon introduce a bill banning long skirts. Detroit's street-railway boss declared that long skirts made the boarding of streetcars hazardous...
Corporal Valtin's job in the 24th was gathering Joe Blow stories to be sent to U.S. hometown papers. Much of Children of Yesterday reads like an extended P.R.O. report: Pvt. So-and-So of Topeka, Kans. did this, Lieut. So-and-So of Valdosta, Ga. did that. So many hundreds (probably 500 to 1,000) of individuals are mentioned by rank, name and home address that at points the text must come almost straight from unit rosters...
Columbus' board had calls from the big fields at Albany and Valdosta, Ga., found the same elemental instructor defects there and at Gulf Coast stations. Pilots began flying from the Pacific Coast to be checked out by the Columbus board. Between May, before Columbus started checking up on instructors, and October the accident rate at the station dropped 44%, though the number of students doubled and the number of students-per-instructor rose from two to three and one-half...