Word: crowing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Crow That Crew in Brooklyn...
...Orleans' 79-year-old Archbishop Joseph Francis Rummel, a famed enemy of segregation (three years ago he banned Jim Crow benches in New Orleans' Catholic churches), met the issue head-on but gently. Instead of cutting off the congregation from all spiritual ministrations, he merely suspended services at the mission in Jesuits Bend and reduced services at two others at nearby Belle Chasse and Myrtle Grove. In a letter addressed to the congregations, the archbishop said that the incident violated "the obligations of reverence and devotion which Catholics owe to every priest...
...upholding a lower court, which had refused the Jim Crow Texas Citizens Council an injunction to bar state funds from integrated schools, the Texas Supreme Court swept away the last legal obstacles to complete desegregation. It 1) declared invalid all sections of the state constitution and state statutes that required public-school segregation, and 2) knocked down that portion of the state's Gilmer-Aikin law that prohibited state funds to mixed schools. The decision, said Texas Attorney General John Ben Shepperd, "settles the law in Texas on a statewide basis...
Though Confidential was quick to crow over "a clear victory," Judge Youngdahl gave it no clean bill of health. Instead, he instructed Confidential's editors to turn over the next issue to post office inspectors within 24 hours after it comes off the presses, thus give the post office a chance to review it before it is mailed...
...matched with another South African team, the Junior Springboks, at a game scheduled to-celebrate the opening of a vast new football stadium in Bloemfontein. But this time the cheers for Britain, if any, will be only sporadic. The city fathers of Bloemfontein voted to install no Jim Crow section and instead to ban all non-whites from the stadium. As is usual in South Africa, this was said to be in the blacks' own interest: "The non-Europeans," vouchsafed one Bloemfontein councilman, "derive the greatest benefit from taking part in sport, not watching...