Word: hartsfield
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Memphis, Mayor James J. Pleasants Jr. bent a dutiful ear toward Boss Crump, announced that the Negro and white races would have to see the Freedom Train separately. Freedom Train officials canceled the stop. But Atlanta's Mayor William Hartsfield refused to sanction such segregation: "I do not see how anybody can draw a color line through freedom and justice...
...third. On the other side of the ropes, he won some consolation (and a $200 bet) when Tutor Martin shot 146 (72-74) in the 36-hole final. Martin's 72-hole total of 292, two strokes better than that of Atlantans Calvin Searles and Zeke Hartsfield, won the tournament and the $500 first prize. Lowest amateur score was 300, turned in by a 19-year-old Norfolk kid named Leroy Smith...