Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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...
...Virginia State 66, Hampton...
Died. Jack (Charles John) Holt, 62, oldtime cinemactor (Born to the West), father of Cinema Cowboy Tim Holt; of coronary thrombosis; in West Los Angeles. Born in Virginia, the son of an Episcopal minister and great-great-grandson of Chief Justice John Marshall, Holt had hard experience as sandhog, Alaska pioneer and Oregon ranchhand before his hard face became known to millions of moviegoers...
...Virginia. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People clamped a boycott on a scheduled Richmond concert by Negro Singer Marian Anderson. Reason: white people were being discriminated against. All the choice center-section seats had been reserved for Negroes...
...more tentative recommendation for such a system, based on those at Princeton, Williams, and the University of Virginia, was passed by the Council 13 to 15, last December. Since this majority was so small, this week's remote was called...