Word: fulton
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...police. Late at night, two white cops stop two young blacks in a car for running a stop sign; the driver cannot produce a license, but suddenly there is a gun in his hand and he is firing. One policeman, Joseph Tracz, 27, is killed. The other, Frederick Fulton, 28, is seriously wounded...
Blacks sometimes oppose integration for down-to-earth reasons of practicality and pride. In Fulton County, Ga., black parents protested a decision to close the six-year-old, $850,000 Eva Thomas High School and spread its all-black student body among four white high schools. Reasons: the school is unusually well equipped and its teachers were proud of having one of the highest college-entry rates in the Atlanta area. Carroll High School parents in Monroe, La., objected to downgrading the all-black school to ninth grade only. Carroll recently built a 4,000-seat stadium...
...Fulton Fish Market. But at that time, Democratic machine politics was the only ladder to middle-class respectability available to most of the New York Irish, and Smith was soon climbing...