Word: withe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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CIVIL RIGHTS To the Roots Attorney General William P. Rogers, heavily occupied with civil rights legalisms during his two-year tenure, last week angrily tongue-lashed the Mississippi grand jury that ignored evidence uncovered by the FBI after the lynching of Mack Charles Parker last April (TIME, Nov. 16). The...
LABOR Struggle in Dixie Hymning the gospel of unionism with tent-revival fervor, 900 millworkers in Henderson, N.C. (pop. 14,500) last week observed the first anniversary of their strike against the Harriet-Henderson Cotton Mills with hand-clapping choruses of Onward, Christian Soldiers and Solidarity Forever. Carrying U.S. and...
Everybody knew that the Lord was supposed to soften the heart of John Downey Cooper Jr., 69, owner and son of a founder of the Harriet-Henderson mills. Long regarded with paternal affection by his employees, old "John D." unexpectedly scuttled the key compulsory-arbitration clause of a 14-year...
Long Division. In mid-February, John D. reopened the mills with nonunion workers, mostly farmers recruited from as far away as Virginia. Despite the presence of more than 100 state highway patrolmen, violence flared at the mill gates. Coming in the role of peacemaker in March, Governor Luther H. Hodges...
Quiet but tense since the militia withdrew in August, Henderson is divided between the dogged strikers and the rest of the city-which just wishes the strike would go away. High School Principal Frederick R. Kesler believes "a lot of things have been said in this town that will take...