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...Bell family of Winnsboro, S.C., had no such luck. Ulese Bell, 52, and his son Ulese Jr. dived under a bed as the funnel approached. But Maude Bell, 48, wanted to see the storm's awful majesty. "She just walked out of the room and into the den to watch the hail fall," says Ulese. "Within three or four seconds, wham! The house just collapsed." Ulese dug his wife of 28 years out of the rubble, but she never regained consciousness...
Setting out from Washington, the Freedom Riders rolled with little fuss through Virginia and North Carolina. At each stop Negroes used white rest rooms, sat at white lunch counters. There was a brief scuffle at Rock Hill, S.C.; two Negro riders were arrested and quickly released in Winnsboro, S.C. Then came another quiet stretch. No incidents took place in Sumter. S.C., Camden, S.C., Augusta, Ga. and Atlanta...
...Winnsboro, S.C., he had been the 75-lb. runt of an amateur boxing team. Sometimes, on trips with the team, he had to serve as mascot and second when there was no boxer on the other squad small enough, i.e., under 100 Ibs., for him to fight. After he moved to Seattle with his mother in 1945, Glisson filled in one night for a dishwasher in a short-order restaurant. He made so much noise that a customer, Horse Trainer Ralph King from nearby Longacres, asked the waitress who he was. Said the waitress: "He ought to be a jockey...
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