Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...West Virginia: William C. Marland...
...Virginia. The three Republicans who upset their Democratic opponents and won seats in the House have an average age of 29. The youngest is Bill Wampler, 26, a Lincolnesque newspaper reporter from Bristol who traveled 35,000 miles and made 250 speeches in eight months of campaigning. The biggest margin in the three races (2,543 votes) was piled up by Richard H. Poff, 29, an air force veteran from Radford. The third of the young men, Joel T. Broyhill, 32, of the Virginia suburbs of Washington, D.C., was a regional Nixon. When his opponent charged that some houses built...
...teaching fellow in government and her husband, a former teaching fellow in economics, think Polanyi has been railroaded. For the last six months Warren and Virginia McClam have been writing to the State Department, Senator-elect Kennedy, Senator Lodge, and the American Civil Liberties Union in the hope that someone will get the decision revoked...
...William C. Chance, a Negro, was ejected from an Atlantic Coastline train in Virginia when he refused to move to a Negro coach. He sued, and the Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond decided in 1951 the Company's segregation rule was invalid. The Supreme Court now, in effect, has ruled that lines may no longer require Negroes to ride between states in "Jim Crow" cars...
Robert G. McCloskey, associate professor of Government, thought it "a step in the right direction, but I'm afraid, a very small step. It's just an extension of the Morgan vs. Virginia case--in 1944--when the Court ruled bus lines could not segregate Negroes. However, the Court has been proceeding, at a very slow pace, towards elimination of Jim Crow rules...