Word: wilmington
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this time. The unpleasant scenario is being played out on the sandy plains and flat farm land of eastern North Carolina. Nine young black men and a white woman were convicted 41/2 years ago of fire-bombing a grocery store during racial disorders in the troubled river port of Wilmington. They were sentenced to terms totaling 282 years in prison. Last week, amid charges of perjury and coercion on both sides, the Wilmington Ten were back in a state courtroom, attempting to have the verdict overturned...
Unlawful Burning. The Wilmington affair erupted in early February 1971, when tensions resulting from school desegregation led to widespread demonstrations, arson, shootings and other violence. A black civil rights organizer, the Rev. Benjamin F. Chavis, then 23, was sent to the city by the United Church of Christ's Commission on Racial Justice; he quickly became a leader of the black demonstrators. Just five days after his arrival, someone bombed Mike's Grocery, 300 yds. from Chavis' headquarters at the manse of Gregory Congregational Church. In that weekend of violence, one middle-aged white...
...first episodes center on the troubles at Globatron, a giant conglomerate run by a terrible-tempered tyrant everyone calls "L.W."-a woman, of course. Globatron is about to spend $125 million on a new ad campaign to promote Wilmington beer. Since women are the beer drinkers in this upside-down world (beer is considered too vulgar for men), Globatron has created the Wilmington Woman, the ideal consumer. The only problem is-shades of Myra Breckinridge-that the Wilmington Woman (Linda Gray) turns out to be a transsexual. While the board of Globatron considers this staggering information, the Wilmington Woman...
Southern newspapers routinely relegated announcements of black births, deaths and marriages to special Jim Crow pages. In 1956, the Wilmington, N.C., Star went to press with a frontpage photo of four Marines who were to testify in the court-martial of a drill instructor charged with brutality. When an editor noticed that one of the witnesses was black, he ordered an employee to chisel the Negro's image out of the press plate. The paper appeared with a ragged white space where the black face had been...
...season. Weary of unpaid bills, many of A. & F.'s suppliers had already begun demanding payment in cash for goods shipped to the firm. To reassure its nervous bankers, Abercrombie's unpaid chairman, Harry G. Haskell Jr., a wealthy sportsman himself (yachting, hunting) and former mayor of Wilmington, Del., who is also A. & F.'s largest stockholder, brought in a corporate surgeon. He is Geoffrey Swaebe, 65, a British-born retailing executive who made his reputation running Los Angeles' May Co., a part of the big St. Louis-based department store chain, in the 1960s...