Word: wetumpka
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...third such decision by a Southern court in eight days. Fortnight ago, in Wetumpka, Ala., two white men got 45-year prison sentences (TIME, Dec. 13) for raping Negro women...
...Wetumpka, Ala. (pop. 3,300) last week, a jury of white men weighed the facts in the trial of a white man charged with raping a Negro woman. The prosecutor, Winston Huddleston, urged the jurors to decide the case "just like you would if a Negro was charged with raping a white woman . . . [and] show the Negro that he can get justice in court." The jurors did. They found 30-year-old John C. Howard guilty and fixed his penalty (an Alabama jury's prerogative) at 45 years in prison. Next day Howard's cousin, 21-year...
...Have It. In Wetumpka, Ala., the local Ford agency continued under the direction of Nash Karr. In Poplar Bluff, Mo., Joe and Henry Peace were arrested for disturbing...
Alabama's State Prison at Wetumpka opened a beauty parlor to improve morale, teach trades to women prisoners. Last week there was a riot among the 300 women (210 of them Negroes) when one was told she couldn't have her nails manicured. When the screaming and scratching ended, Warden J. Curtis Weldon Sr. gave five white women prisoners their choice of seven lashes apiece or loss of prison privileges for 60 days. They chose the flogging, which the warden administered himself. Alabama's Governor Dixon promptly fired the warden...