Scottsboro case seen as faded in memory after parole
The Scottsboro affair ends its long shadow as time erodes memory of the 1930s rape accusation and trials involving nine Black youths. The事件 began with two white women accusing nine Black youths on a train near Scottsboro, Alabama, with later admissions of falsehood by one accuser. The defendants, Weems, Powell, Norris, Montgomery, Robertson, Patterson, Williams, Wrights, faced lengthy imprisonment before parole and lasting impact on due process debates.
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Scottsboro
Jackson County
Alabama
Ruby Bates
Victoria Price
Evidenste Weems
Ozie Powell
Clarence Norris
Olsen Montgomery
Willie Robertson
Haywood Patterson
Eugene Williams
Andrew
Leroy Wright
Journalism Staff Tours Texas A&M Convention
Commentary describes a nine member journalism staff from a community college attending the Texas Junior College Press Association convention at Texas A&M University. The group tours campus sites, faces illness en route, meets student friends, and attends convention activities and social events while noting some business aspects of the session.
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Texas Junior College Press Association
Texas A&m University
College Station
Here
the Lantern
Journalism
Lee College
Lee Drive
Baytown
Texas
Associated Collegiate Press
Turbulent TJCPA meeting tests student union leadership
Dean West and TJCPA vice president clashed with executive director George Flynn over the survival of the students' organization. Flynn called TJCPA apathetic and urged dissolving it while neglecting duties such as newsletters. After a paralysed business meeting and brief constitutional suspension, the group embraced a simplified governance model backed by Eastfield Jr. College and Tarrant County South amid fatigue and a chaotic weekend at A&.M.
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Dean West
TJCPA
George Flynn
Flynn
Eastfield Jr. College
Tarrant County South
Childcare Center Petition and Clock Synchronization Talk
A student letter urges Lee College to open a campus childcare center to aid student mothers and create jobs. It also calls for a synchronized campus clock system to prevent tardiness. The board has no childcare program pending until state certification is met. clocks remain unfixed.
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Lee College
Peter K. St. Julian
LC Board of Regent
the Lantern
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Scotsboro
Susan Cummings
Carl Porter
Dana Green
Collin Teague
Mark Brazzil
Mike Norton
Anita Dugat
Denise Drew
Connie Partis
Virgil Koolman
Janet Younger
Andy Smoke
Tina Carpenter
Ronnie Burt
Judy Parris
College Administration
Board of Regents
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