Word: charleston
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Chavez's contracts left the workers defenseless. If anyone wanted to work he had to be in "good standing" with Cesar Chavez. As one Washington columnist wrote, "These glorious contracts reek of the docks--the docks of Charleston and New Orleans 120 years ago. Like slave traders and plantation owners, Chavez and the growers are buying and selling human beings...
...verge of accomplishing the second. In South Carolina's primary last July, he outpolled six other candidates, then went on to trounce favored Congressman William Jennings Bryan Dorn in the runoff. He was expected to have no trouble defeating Republican State Senator James Edwards, 47, a Charleston dentist with a right-wing following, in the November election. But in his zeal to succeed, Ravenel failed to read-or heed-the fine print in the state constitution...
Erotica in Charleston...
...visiting in Charleston, W. Va., during the height of the furor over textbooks, and it was truly a frightening experience. Voices of reason there will tell you that most of the books under attack are used in classrooms all across the country. They were carefully selected by professional educators, who surely are better qualified to judge than fundamentalist preachers and their wives. Truth, justice and Christianity, not to mention education, will not be served if the book burners have their way. Mrs. Therell Anscott Atlanta...
Strife is familiar enough to West Virginia, a state with a history of chronic coal-mining wars. Early in September trouble erupted again. Pickets closed coal mines and truck terminals in the Charleston area and surrounding Kanawha County and in five neighboring counties, keeping 6,000 miners out of work. Beatings and shooting broke out on the picket lines. Construction on the Appalachian Power Co.'s massive new plant came to a halt. Protesters held mass meetings and disrupted public bus service in Charleston, and at the height of the furor a quarter of Kanawha County schoolchildren stayed...