Word: alabama
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Alabama Action 'Reprehensible...
Last May a three-judge federal panel upheld the Alabama law on the ground that none of the 17 qualifications were, in and of themselves, unconstitutional unless proved, by evidence submitted to the courts, to be administered so as to exclude Negroes from white schools. "In some future proceeding," warned the lower court, "[the law] may be declared unconstitutional in its applications." That, in sum, was the judgment that the Supreme Court sustained last week...
...There's a new law of the land today on the integration problems of public schools," proclaimed Columnist David Lawrence, a Virginia Democrat. "Token integration now has become possible on a constitutional basis everywhere." Alabama's Lieutenant Governor-elect Albert Boutwell, one of the leading advocates of the law, talked of calling a South-wide conference to spread his doctrine. But what the Supreme Court had actually done was grant Alabama the right that it or any other state is entitled to: the presumption of good faith until otherwise proved. When and if Alabama demonstrates by its application...
...Auburn (9-0-1.)-content just to keep winning, no matter how unimpressively, got by fired-up Alabama 14-8 to complete its second straight season without defeat...
MONTGOMERY, Ala.--Alabama officials and grand juries are weaving a barrier of legal red tape around voting records the federal Civil Rights Commission has subpoenaed for its first public hearing Monday...